Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while, one visitor to the commune was a fictional TIME correspondent called Roland Burton Hedley Jr., a handle Trudeau could have concocted from three of the names on our masthead: Los Angeles Correspondent Roland Flamini, Boston Bureau Chief Sandra Burton and Editor-in-Chief Hedley Donovan. In the strip, Correspondent Hedley arrived at the off-campus Doonesbury commune near Boston with instructions from a "Mr. Grunwald," another character possibly borrowed from TIME's masthead, to begin reporting for "our annual 'state-of-the-student' essay." Trudeau's caricature TIME reporter was equipped with camera, notebooks...
...friends from Yale, some of whom are models for Doonesbury characters. Because of Trudeau's oft-stated aversion to interviews, however, Burton was never able to get him to identify the real-life model, if there was one, for the TIME correspondent he created for his strip. But one thing is certain, she says: "Each of us is sure that it could not have been him-and certainly...
Gerald Ford did not go by the code name "Snowbunny" on the ski slopes at Vail last Christmas, but he did one day on the pen-and-ink slopes of Doonesbury. That comic-strip episode now hangs on the wall of Ford's private study, just off the Oval Office. Down the hall, Ron Nessen keeps three more Doonesburys, all poking gentle fun at the press secretary. Downstairs, in the office of White House Photographer David Kennerly, who covered the Viet Nam War for U.P.I, and TIME, there is a set of Doonesbury panels depicting a homesick Viet Cong...
...Garry Trudeau, and his Doonesbury is more than mindless mirth. It is a climate of opinion, a mocking view of American life. Since the spidery lines of Doonesbury first appeared in the Yale campus newspaper in 1968, they have become the punch lines of some 449 dailies. The strip is now scanned by more than 60 million readers in the U.S. and Canada. Hard-and soft-bound collections have sold over three-quarters of a million copies, and the biggest assemblage yet, The Doonesbury Chronicles (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $12.95 hardcover, $6.95 paper), has sold 270,000 copies since last fall...
...strip's pivotal character is the pencil-nosed naïf Michael J. Doonesbury, a founding member of the Walden Puddle Commune and an armchair liberal who spends much of his time, quite literally in an armchair, sampling the world's lunacy from television newscasts. He seems to have a gift for the mal mot, telling a menacing group of black separatists, "Hey, ol' Martin Luther King was one heck of a fellah, wasn't he?" or informing a $65,000-a-year rock entrepreneur in California that "back East you 'Frisco hipsters are kind...