Over 250 Comic Strips Are Alive and Read in Most Papers; The White House Objected Tough for New Strips
Date: 29 July 1979
By DEIRDRE CARMODY
Deirdre CARMODY
Comment on popularity and importance to readers of comic strips in newspapers; James D Squires, editor of Orlando Sentinel-Star, notes overwhelmingly negative reader response when comic strip Fred Bassett was temporarily dropped from paper; Newspaper Comic Council reports Sunday color comic sections have readership of 60 million people, and merchandising and licensing of items depicting comic strip characters make up multimillion-dollar business that has given some top cartoonists high salaries; Washington Star's luring of comic strip Doonesbury away from Washington Post noted; Metro Comics survey notes that 40% of all adults read strips; Michael J O'Neill, editor of NY Daily News, William Yates, comic editor at King Features, and Mort Walker, head of Museum of Cartoon Art, comment (M)
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Times Ran a Comic in 1906
Date: 29 July 1979
NY Times, for 6 months in 1906, ran comic strip called The Roosevelt Bears, which turned out not to be popular; Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger, daughter of former publisher Adolph S Ochs, says Ochs thought comic strips to be 'cheap and horrible'; Roosevelt Bears was written by Paul Piper and illustrated by V Floyd Campbell and R K Culver; cartoon illus (S)
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Follow-Up on the News; Pacemaker Defect
Date: 29 July 1979
RICHARD HAITCH
Richard HAITCH
NYS Assembly Subcommittee on City Management says NYC was overcharged estimated $5 million on asphalt purchases between '75 and '77 (S)
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World News Briefs; Spain Announces Arrest Of Two Terrorists
Date: 28 July 1979
Thomas J Watson, President Carter's nomineee for Ambassador to Moscow, endorses decision, Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing (S)
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World News Briefs; Execution of 26 Ex-Officials In Ethiopian Jail Indicated
Date: 29 July 1979
Turkish military tribunal charges 4 Palestinian guerrillas with premediated murder in connection with recent raid on Egyptian Embassy in which 3 persons died (S)
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West Virginia Judge Bars Press but Not Public From Court Hearing; Gag Order in Alabama
Date: 28 July 1979
Blount County Circuit Ct Judge H E Holladay orders Birmingham newspaper not to publish 1st day of proceedings in murder trial of Aaron Jones on ground that evidence produced during day would also be presented in case of co-defendant Arthur Lee Giles (S)
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