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...rarely changes a line. Even with two assistants, it takes Young two more days to finish the first five strips, do a sixth, and turn out a Sun day Blondie page and a short Sunday strip called Colonel Potterby and the Duchess. He usually spends a couple of days swim ming, woodworking and loafing before he puts in two more days personally answer ing his fan mail (he sends every fan a card cartoon, often adds a note), and taking care of the business side of the highly profitable Blondie enterprises. Unlike many cartoonists, Young owns all the rights...
...Princeton were invited. An enlisted men's band provided musical background while the officers bustled about and made themselves friendly. Then there was a small tete-a-tete out at the Breakers Hotel, which featured the Talbot brothers, a pair of Calypso artists. It was supposed to be a swimming party but it was too cold to swim. Five other days swimming was hampered by rain which fell in varying quantities, the main deluge coming on Thursday, the day Harvard played Yale...
When the University of Iowa's Wally Ris, a 195-lb. porpoise of a man, set out for the Olympic games last year, his father was mad: better his son should be painting the house in Chicago than off swimming in London. Even when Wally came home with the zoo-meter free-style championship, his dad, a Polish emigrant who speaks only a little English, balked at letting him go to Bermuda to swim again. He stuck a paintbrush in Wally's fin, and spoke one word of English forcibly: "Commence...
Swimmer Ris was in Florida. At Daytona Beach's Welch Pools, he sized up his competition for the National A.A.U. zoo-yd. race with a clear water eye. His big feet gripping the tiled rim of the pool, Wally knew just how he would swim this one-in the same slow-starting style that keeps his friends' and coaches' hearts in their mouths until the last...
...holes a day, usually shooting in the low 80s. In the summers the Trippes take their 16-year-old daughter, Betty, and three young sons, Charles, John and Edward, to a rambling, grey-shingled house on the ocean's edge at East Hampton, L.I., where Trippe likes to swim and surffish with the boys, exercising hard to work off tension. In winter the whole family occasionally goes skiing in a body...