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Highly Profitable. Chic Young has been drawing as long as he can remember. In McKinley High School, in St. Louis, he used to sketch his classmates, and soon after graduation got a job cartooning in New York. He made the big time with Dumb Dora, then sold Hearst's King Features Syndicate on the idea of Blondie. After 1 8 years of drawing Blondie, 48- year-old Cartoonist Young still finds it a chore. To help him meet deadlines, he quit Manhattan in 1939 for the quiet of a small fruit ranch in Van Nuys, Calif. There, he settles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Blondie's Father | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...democratic The Academy surely is. Why, even Ben Gordon, Jew, a was president of the Student Council. (But Ben was forced to resign when he refused to participate in The Academy's program of military training.) And this year we have with us a Negro boy, Tad McKinley. (But Tad is expelled a week before his graduation for making love to his girl at Spring Prom.) Happily, our new Council President is a fine lad, Buddy Brown; we're sure Buddy will do a fine job. (Buddy is a little stinker, but we treat him kindly because his father...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: The Bookshelf | 3/30/1949 | See Source »

Henry Bradford Washburn '33, veteran explorer and mountain climber, will show his technicolor film. "The Conquest of Mount McKinley" at a meeting sponsored by the Harvard Mountaineering Club in the Geographical Building at 8 p.m. tonight. The technical points of the climb will be featured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mountaineer Will Show Film Today | 3/23/1949 | See Source »

Washbura, only three-time president of the HMC, has twice conquered Mt. McKinley. His second trip, shown in the films, was a science-backed expedition to test conditions at high altitude. Supplies hauled by dogs and dropped by airplane greatly eased his journey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mountaineer Will Show Film Today | 3/23/1949 | See Source »

Washburn's wife, who also made the trip, became the first woman over to make the top of Mt. McKinley and is supposed to have climbed higher than any other woman in the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mountaineer Will Show Film Today | 3/23/1949 | See Source »

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