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...cardboard, its bottom strewn with strips of cloth and paper for mousy nesting. Press and newsreel photographers crowded around, snapped perky, self-assured Minnie until midnight. A Chicago hotel matched the Zoo's offer for her. Manager Allred held out for $1,000, hoped to get it from Walt Disney, whose singing mouse escaped few months...
...Eagle's Editor Cleveland Rodgers, a onetime typesetter, is to keep his duties, while on the other side of this united publishing house the Times-Union's Editor Joseph J. Early also continues in control. An alumnus of both papers like their most famed past editor, Walt Whitman, Publisher Goodfellow will now be in general charge of all Brooklyn's home-grown daily reading matter except that provided by the Citizen (circulation...
Grey Owl's account makes these kittens sound like something out of a Walt Disney cartoon. One always walked erect, "staggering around like a decrepit old man." Another discovered he could ride on his mother's flat tail, would catch a ride whenever Jelly Roll waddled around the camp. Sometimes three kittens would ride, one passenger standing on the tail with one leg and marking time with the other on the floor, like a child scooting along on a Kiddie-Kar. Jelly Roll would pay no attention whatsoever...
...Whitney offers far more practical rewards by buying from its large endowment a great many more pictures from each Biennial than it ever expects to hang permanently on its walls. Critics rooted loudest last week for a portrait of a pert chorus blonde in a plumed shako by Walt Kuhn, who started his artistic career drawing comic pictures for the humorous weeklies, has become one of the ablest painters...
...exaggerated pictorial humor which had made him rich & famed. In place of the hilarious daily strip which the McNaught Syndicate was happily selling far & wide, "Rube" Goldberg offered a serious, human-interest character named Doc Wright, similar in tone but not in inspiration to Gasoline Alley's benign Walt Wallet. Within ten months, the solemn doings of Doc Wright were beginning to bore Artist Goldberg as much as they did many a reader. Though Doc Wright still appeared in more than zoo papers, independently wealthy Artist Goldberg quit drawing altogether, devoted full time to his writing instead...