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...comic strips about Gump, Winkle, Tracy et al., plus the sports comment of Westbrook Pegler and medical advice by Dr. William A. Evans, have long been features of the Post. All are syndicated by the Chicago Tribune* which is published by Editrix Patterson's famed brother & cousin (Patterson & McCormick). When the Post went into receiver ship its contracts were considered void, and features were bought on a week-to-week basis. At that point alert Mrs. Patterson stepped in, got the Tribune Syndicate to make an exclusive contract with the Herald for the comics & features, beginning this week. While...
...Composer Strauss wrote another opera whose plot depended upon disguise and mistaken identities. In Rosenkavalier, the most charming and successful of his works, a young Austrian nobleman dresses as a lady's maid, makes a monkey out of a lecherous old baron and after a series of richly comic episodes wins the girl whom the baron intended for himself. Arabella follows Der Rosenkavalier in many of its details. The impecunious old Count puts on a drinking act as blatant if not half so funny as old Baron Ochs's. A richly-scored waltz dominates the second act, laid...
...went berserk with despair, usually rushed his startled opponent off his feet. Then, just when life was getting a little easier, girls came into the picture. Painfully shy and equally susceptible, Vridar fell prey to another set of bullies. The story leaves him still in his teens, in the comic-tragic age, haunted by the chimeras of Sin and Nobility. Between the two Vridar had a bad time, nearly went insane with brooding. The story ends on a comparatively cheerful note, with the ghosts that are tormenting Vridar's half-crazy conscience blown away in gusts of healthy laughter...
...before he went East to Yale. The Spokesman mourned deeply last week the passing of its best colyumist, a man who, News Editor Malcolm Glendenning said, had never once turned in a poor piece of copy, who knew as much about sport as he did about turning out neat comic rhymes for his daily "Facetious Fragments." Yalemen who were in college just before the War remembered Stod King's brilliant undergraduate record, how he impressed people at first as a swart plain-spoken Westerner careless about clothes, how he joined Zeta Psi (next to worst of the five fraternities...
...from the University of Chicago and literary odd jobs in Chicago and Manhattan, Wescott went abroad to live and has been there off & on ever since, mostly in Villefranche or Paris. He is unmarried, slender, boyish-looking, with a long, smooth face, pointed, lobeless ears. He is fond of comic strips. Other books: The Apple of the Eye, Natives of the Rock, The Grandmothers, Goodbye Wisconsin, The Babe's Bed, Fear & Trembling (TIME...