Word: chester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cartoonist Stamm, who once worked as assistant to Chester Gould (Dick Tracy), brought Stainless into his Scarlet O'Neil strip because he was tired of straight adventure comics, now makes $40,000 a year. In the dead-serious world of comic-strip nerves, Cartoonist Stamm has a simple reason for Stainless' popularity: "His saving grace is that he isn't deadly serious like most heroes. He's got a sense of humor...
Little Pitchers. In Chester, England, after Robert Emrys Griffiths filed suit for divorce from his wife on the grounds that she committed adultery 16 years ago, Judge Emlyn Jones explained: "He did not want to bring proceedings until the children were grown...
Deflated. In Hamden, Ohio, after their truckload of steel shavings dribbled out along the road, causing a dozen flat tires in several hours, Truckers Floyd Wiseman and Roger Eberts were fined $10 apiece by Hamden Mayor Chester Nickell and put to work with hand brooms sweeping nearly nine miles of highway...
...assure a continuing high standard, he set up a self-perpetuating board of trustees which examines all gift horses with a dentist's doubtful eye. Since Mellon's death in 1937, vast bequests from Samuel Kress and Joseph Widener (old masters), Lessing Rosenwald (prints and drawings) and Chester Dale (old masters and modern French paintings) have swelled the collection. It now numbers 1,721 paintings, 1,696 sculptures (mostly small), 21,451 prints and drawings, 22,000 watercolor renderings and photographs of American art objects (made under WPA auspices), 815 objects of decorative art, and 1,436 photographs...
...succession, she was secretary to five Deans of Students: Yeomans, Chester N. Greenough, A. Chester Hanford, Wilbur J. Bender '27, and Delmar Leighton...