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Most notable violator of that rule is Frank O. King, who draws "Gasoline Alley" for the Chicago Tribune Syndicate. Fourteen years ago grey-haired Cartoonist King singled out his favorite character, fat Bachelor Walt Wallet, surprised him one morning with a fondling infant on his doorstep. Thus Skeezix. As years rolled by Frank King let Skeezix grow out of babyhood. Meanwhile Walt had become prosperous, married his comely neighbor Phyllis Blossom. With careful delicacy Cartoonist King shielded her form and feelings during pregnancy until, six years ago, Baby Corkleigh ("Corky") was born to the Wallets. While Skeezix lengthened into gangling...
Last week, after days of rigmarole surrounding a "mysterious woman in black," Cartoonist King completed the cycle back to the patter of baby feet. In his parked automobile Walt Wallet discovered a new baby and a note. Excerpts...
Frank King last week left Walt & Phyllis debating whether or not to "take on such a responsibility." But no reader who knew his comic strips expected for an instant that the baby would wind up in an orphanage. Also, since "Anguished Mother" stuck to the neuter gender in referring to "it," all odds pointed to a foster-sister for Skeezix & Corky...
Matching this piece was Walt Whitman's "Dirge for two Veterans" set to music by Holst, conducted by "Doc" with lightness and precision which it is his gift to draw from his singers without any sacrifice of emotional force...
...humanity has had a wrong conception of the bird of prey. Now take Shakespeare. He used the owl to create tragedy and gloom. That sort of thing made the public associate the owl with a graveyard, but I'm wiping all that out. I am sort of the Walt Whitman of Canada, although not so risque, as I deal with birds...