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...onslaught and groping for solid ground in a world where cruising can include drive-by shootings and where a semiautomatic handgun can be the most exciting thing in a boy's life, the 1990s equivalent of a shiny new bicycle. "My son was shot last summer," announces Chris Messick, a mother of three. "They almost shot his head...
...stories for the Flash, Girl Reporter Brenda Starr has finally tracked down her man. The funny-papers heroine, still a red-haired beauty of 23, last week exchanged wedding vows with dashing, eye-patched Basil St. John on the cartoon page of 150 newspapers. To celebrate, Starr Creator Dale Messick, 69, joined with some 125 well wishers for a mock reception in Washington...
...Columnist Ann Landers came to offer advice; Priscilla of Boston, who PEOPLE designed Tricia Nixon's wedding gown, put on a fashion show; and Ellen Proxmire, wife of Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, brought a four-tiered wedding cake. Cartoon fans, take heart. Before the evening's end, Messick assured all present that Brenda would stick to her old newspaper beat for some time to come. After all, explained Dale, "she didn't marry a rich...
...shouldn't Brenda suffer like the rest of us?" mused Cartoonist Dale Messick, 69, after revealing that Brenda Starr, girl reporter and glamorous comic-strip heroine in 150 newspapers, was finally going to be married. Though she accepted the proposal of the ever-faithful Larry Nichols last week, Brenda will probably end up at the altar in November with the dashing Basil St. John, her boy friend of 35 years, revealed Creator Messick. "After all, Brenda has been everywhere and done everything, but she's still a virgin. In fact, she only got a belly button five...
SYNDICATE ABROAD by Hank Messick. 246 pages. Macmillan. $5.95. This nononsense, all-business book, the fourth Messick "Syndicate" title in three years, bears down on the Bahamas, wonder drug for February sufferers and haven for the U.S. gamblers and tax-afflicted...