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...achieved fame as The Yellow Kid,† was promptly snatched by Hearst for the Sunday Journal's eight-page color supplement. A year later, the Journal dragooned 19-year-old Staff Artist Dirks into composing a cartoon based on German Artist Wilhelm Busch's venerable Max und Moritz drawings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dirks's Bad Boys | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...over Dirks's protests. "People will get sick of this stuff," he insisted. But the kids caught on, soon gathered the supporting cast that still appears in both strips: long-suffering Mama; Der Inspector, a white-bearded truant officer; and Der Captain, a seafaring disciplinarian ("Spare der rod und spoil der brat"), who is Mama's star boarder and the pranksters' perennial victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dirks's Bad Boys | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...Kids ever since. The great Katzenjammer feud broke out in 1913, when the Journal sued to prevent Artist Dirks from going over to Pulitzer's World. After a Kidless year in court, the Journal won all rights to the Katzenjammer Kids title and hired the late Harold (Dinglehoofer und His Dog) Knerr to draw the strip. Dirks took the Katzies, as he calls them, to the World and started a new comic strip called Hans and Fritz. To appease anti-German sentiment in World War I, he changed the name to The Captain and the Kids (Knerr, who rechristened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dirks's Bad Boys | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...Divorced. Alfried Felix Alwin Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 49, munitions-rich head of the German industrial dynasty; by Vera Krupp, 47, German-born U.S. citizen, onetime New York socialite and part owner of Las Vegas' New Frontier casino; after four years of marriage, no children; in a defaulted suit which allows her no claim to Krupp's $150 million holdings; in Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 21, 1957 | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...employed and the developing processes to which they are subjected do not create very exciting listening. There is not much melodic variety, and when resort is made to the dramatic device of gradually rising chromatically through successive transpositions of virtually the same material, one is reminded of the "Sturm und Drang" school...

Author: By Bert Baldwin, | Title: Composers' Lab Concert | 12/5/1956 | See Source »

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