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...Gibson pictures, peddled them for profit. He did cartoons for a theatrical weekly and for several newspapers. But he stayed poor until he turned out a correspondence course on "How to be a cartoonist and make big money." He sold thousands of copies for $1 apiece. He was doing a so-so successful strip, "Married Life," for the Chicago Herald at $35 a week when King Features hired him in 1919. Result: Barney Google. Before he died last week at 52 after a year's illness. William Morgan De Beck had a 14-room Florida house, a Manhattan Riverside...
...Madison Square Garden's Knights of Columbus meet last week, Blozis tucked his event away with a so-so put. A photographer pleaded for just one more, for a picture. Blozis obliged. That shot lit 57 ft. 9½ in. away-the greatest put ever made; didn't count...
Died. Maurice Leblanc, 76, "the French Conan Doyle"; in Perpignan, France. Unsuccessful poet and so-so novelist, brother of Maeterlinck's friend Georgette Leblanc (TIME, Nov. 3), in 1906 he created Arsene Lupin, "Robin Hood of the drawing rooms," saw his whodunits translated into 25 languages. Working with lead pencil in an all-glass room, he confessed himself mystified by the inspiration for his plots...
Thanks to Michigan's giving Northwestern its second licking of the season (20-10-13) last week, Minnesota, with only one more game to play (against so-so Wisconsin), clinched the Big Ten title, toughest of the country's nine big intercollegiate championships...