Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stated [TIME, Sept. 2] that the trade secret of the fact that Barnaby was ghostwritten had been let out of the bag last week. However, in an article for my junior high-school paper I mentioned that Mr. Johnson had stopped working on the Barnaby strip. This issue of The Reflector came out last June...
...questionnaire also showed that some twenty men had been present for over a dozen performances. One man was even an usher at the strip house for six months, and a question mentioning the ideal location of the theatre (halfway between the Charlestown Navy Yard and Harvard Square) was entered on a Geography 1 exam...
...Last week the Chicago Sun syndicate let a trade secret out of the bag: its ghost-ridden Barnaby strip (in 52 papers, circ. 5,590,000) had been ghostwritten as well since the first of the year. Next week the ghosts would materialize; in place of Johnson's byline, quietly dropped several months ago, there would be two new ones: Ted Ferro and Jack Morley, Connecticut neighbors of Johnson. Ferro, at 41 an old hand at collaboration, had ground out radio serial Lorenzo Jones with his wife for nine years. Morley, a 38-year-old gag cartoonist, once...
Johnson schooled Neighbors Ferro & Morley for months before letting PM and the syndicate in on his plans. He still sits in on story conferences-and shares in profits from the strip-but Barnaby takes little of his time. By now, says Ferro, "it's all done by telepathy." Freed from his daily grind, Johnson is writing a book about Barnaby for publication in the fall. Barnaby and Mr. O'Malley, a play adapted by Johnson and Jerome Chodorov from the strip, will open in Wilmington next week, may get to Broadway in the fall...
...Royal Mounted still bears the name of Zane Grey, whom it has survived by seven years. And although Clare Briggs died in 1930, the New York Herald Tribune could not bring itself to put a new by-line (Arthur Folwell and Ellison Hoover) on his Mr. and Mrs. strip until eight years...