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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Washington Watch; Volcker's Safety Valve
Date: 30 July 1979
Clyde H. Farnsworth
Clyde Farnsworth
Evelyn Y Davis, who regularly appears at stockholders' meetings to ask questions of corporation executives, is cleared to attend Carter news conferences as newsletter writer for stockholders (S)
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Midtown Construction: Problem of Prosperity; News Analysis
Date: 30 July 1979
By PAUL GOLDBERGER
Paul GOLDBERGER
Paul Goldberger analysis of proliferation of office construction in midtown Manhattan; notes construction is going ahead so rapidly now that most planners agree that most urgent problem is controlling growth; says concentration appears to be result of concern by lending institutions, which are reluctant to finance buildings in any but prime locations, and desire by foreign-based companies, which now make up large percentage of commercial rental market, to be at best addresses; NYC Planning Commission chairman Robert F Wagner Jr has ordered study of building densities in midtown, with goal of producing new city policy for zoning and economic incentive in area; illus; drawing; map shows new buildings in midtown (L)
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Sports News Briefs; Post Time Is Winner Of Long Island Race
Date: 30 July 1979
Four-Hundred-Meter Run: Marita Koch (East Germany) sets women's world record (48.89 seconds) at internatl meet, East Germany (S)
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Letters; Will Rationing Allocate Gasoline Fairly?
Date: 30 July 1979
ANTHONY DOWNS
Anthony DOWNS
Prof Stephen R Barnett letter holds Supreme Court decision on closing of criminal trials is unfortunate, but protests by press on behalf of public's 'right to know' suffer from some embarrassing background dissonance; holds loser in case is Gannett Co; holds press would be in better position to protest closed trials if so much of press were not so ready to put its own interest in secrecy first; drawing
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