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37-636: Cholly Knickerbocker is a pseudonym used by a series of society columnists writing for papers including the New York American and its successor, the New York Journal-American . The name came from the perceived New York upper-crust pronunciation of "Charlie", and the pseudonym of Washington Irving " Diedrich Knickerbocker ". This article about an American writer is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . New York American Joseph Pulitzer's younger brother Albert founded

74-554: A brief career as a journalist during the final months of World War II. Leonard Liebling served as the paper's music critic from 1923 to 1936. Beginning in 1938, Max Kase (1898–1974) was the sports editor until the newspaper expired in 1966. The fashion editor was Robin Chandler Duke. Jack O'Brian (1914–2000) was television critic for the Journal-American and exposed the 1958 quiz-show scandal that involved cheating on

111-407: A friend of Dorgan's, wrote that when Dorgan "was eight, he was fooling around on a house-moving job and attempted to ride a shovel on a rope that was propelled by a big pulley. He turned his head for a second and his right hand was caught in a pulley, crushing off four fingers of that right hand, which was reduced to a thumb and a piece of knuckle." Henry Morton Robinson 's description of the incident

148-561: A gossip columnist and as an acquaintance of F. Scott Fitzgerald . William V. Finn, a staff photographer, died on the morning of June 25, 1958, while photographing the aftermath of a fiery collision between the tanker Empress Bay and cargo ship Nebraska in the East River . Finn was a past-president of the New York Press Photographers Association and was the second of only two of the association's members to die in

185-483: A one-armed paperhanger" (overworked); and "Yes, we have no bananas," which was turned into a popular song . In the New York Times obituary, he was bracketed with George Ade and Ring Lardner as a popularizer of "a new slang vernacular." His obituary also credited him as the originator of " Twenty-three, Skidoo ," "solid ivory," " Dumb Dora ," "finale hopper," "Benny" for hat, and "dogs'" for shoes. W. J. Funk, of

222-548: A situation compounded by the fact that television news was affecting evening newspapers more than their morning counterparts. The domination of television news became evident starting with the four-day period of JFK's assassination , Jack Ruby 's shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald and both men's funerals. New York newspapers in general were in dire straits by then, following a devastating newspaper strike in late 1962 and early 1963 . Journal-American editors, apparently sensing that psychotherapy and rock music were starting to enter

259-771: A sports journalist, Dorgan did a humor feature, "Daffydills." His dog cartoons, including Judge Rummy (1910-1922), evolved into the strip Silk Hat Harry's Divorce Suit . This was accompanied by a one-panel gag series called Indoor Sports which became his main feature, along with an occasional Outdoor Sports . Dorgan is generally credited with either creating or popularizing such words and expressions as " dumbbell " (a stupid person); " for crying out loud " (an exclamation of astonishment); " cat's meow " and " cat's pajamas " (as superlatives); " applesauce " (nonsense); " cheaters " (eyeglasses); " skimmer " (a hat); " hard-boiled " (tough and unsentimental); " drugstore cowboy " (a loafer or ladies' man); " nickel-nurser " (a miser); "as busy as

296-638: Is housed at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. The photographic morgue consists of approximately two million prints and one million negatives created for publication, with the bulk of the collection covering the years from 1937 to the paper's demise in 1966. The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History , also at the University of Texas at Austin, has the Journal-American morgue of clippings, numbering approximately nine million. Because they are not digitized and because employees of

333-478: Is largely the same, except that he said it took place when Dorgan was nine. Westbrook Pegler , another friend of Dorgan's, wrote that Dorgan had lost "the first two fingers and half of the palm of his right hand" in an incident with a buzzsaw . Comics historian John Adcock has noted that, of all the "dozens of different stories", only McIntyre's version accorded with the statement on Dorgan's draft card that he had "all fingers except thumb off of right hand". After

370-605: The New York Morning Journal in 1882. After three years of its existence, John R. McLean briefly acquired the paper in 1895. It was renamed The Journal . But a year later in 1896, he sold it to Hearst. In 1901, the morning newspaper was renamed New York American . Hearst founded the New York Evening Journal about a year later in 1896. He entered into a circulation war with the New York World ,

407-581: The American before becoming president of baseball's National League (1934–1951), then commissioner of Major League Baseball (1951–1965). Frick was hired by Wilton S. Farnsworth , who was sports editor of the American from 1914 to 1937 until becoming a boxing promoter. Bill Corum was a sportswriter for the Journal-American who also served nine years as president of the Churchill Downs race track. Frank Graham covered sports there from 1945 to 1965 and

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444-567: The Funk and Wagnall's dictionary company, placed Dorgan at the top of the list of the ten "most fecund makers of American slang." Dorgan was erroneously credited with coining the usage of the phrase " hot dog " as slang for sausage. Tad Dorgan and his wife, Izole M., lived in Great Neck, New York in a house valued at $ 75,000. They had no biological children, but they raised two Chinese children to adulthood. Dorgan stopped attending sporting events in

481-591: The Journal 's staff in 1905. In 1922, the Evening Journal introduced a Saturday color comics tabloid with strips not seen on Sunday, and this 12-page tabloid continued for decades, offering Popeye , Grandma , Don Tobin's The Little Woman , Mandrake the Magician , Don Flowers ' Glamor Girls , Grin and Bear It , Buck Rogers , and other strips. Rube Goldberg and Einar Nerman also became cartoonists with

518-533: The Journal-American ' s demise was a power struggle between Hearst CEO Richard E. Berlin and two of Hearst's sons, who had trouble carrying on the father's legacy after his 1951 death. William Randolph Hearst Jr. claimed in 1991 that Berlin, who died in 1986, had suffered from Alzheimer's disease starting in the mid-1960s and that caused him to shut down several Hearst newspapers without just cause. The Journal-American ceased publishing in April 1966, officially

555-618: The Journal-American . The Evening Journal was home to famed investigative reporter Nellie Bly , who began writing for the paper in 1914 as a war correspondent from the battlefields of World War I. Bly eventually returned to the United States and was given her own column that she wrote right up until her death in 1922. Popular columnists included Ambrose Bierce , Benjamin De Casseres , Dorothy Kilgallen , O. O. McIntyre , and Westbrook Pegler . Kilgallen also wrote articles that appeared on

592-527: The Beatles made to New York in 1964 and 1965, including their appearances at Shea Stadium , various Journal-American columnists and reporters devoted a lot of space to them. Throughout 1964 and 1965, Dorothy Kilgallen's Voice of Broadway column, which ran Sunday through Friday, often reported short news items about trendy young rock groups and performers such as The Rolling Stones , The Animals , The Dave Clark Five , Mary Wells and Sam Cooke . The newspaper

629-448: The Toiler , Little Annie Rooney , Little Iodine , Bob Green's The Lone Ranger , Believe It or Not! , Uncle Remus , Dinglehoofer und His Dog  [ fr ] , Donald Duck , Tippie , Right Around Home , Barney Google and Snuffy Smith , and The Katzenjammer Kids . Tad Dorgan , known for his boxing and dog cartoons, as well as the comic character Judge Rummy , joined

666-662: The amputation, Dorgan took up drawing for therapy. When he was 14 he joined the art staff of the San Francisco Bulletin . He created his first comic strip, Johnny Wise , for the San Francisco Chronicle in 1902. By 1905 he was working in New York City at the New York Journal as a sports writer and cartoonist. Jack Dempsey described him as "the greatest authority on boxing." In addition to his work as

703-405: The combined New York World Journal Tribune was delayed for several months after the April 1966 expiration of its three components because of difficulty reaching an agreement with manual laborers who were needed to operate the press. The World Journal Tribune commenced publication on September 12, 1966, but folded eight months later. Other afternoon and evening newspapers that expired following

740-656: The consciousness of both blue-collar and white-collar New Yorkers, enlisted Dr. Joyce Brothers to write front-page articles in February 1964 analyzing the Beatles . While the Beatles were filming Help! in the Bahamas , columnist Phyllis Battelle interviewed them for articles that ran on the Journal-American front page and in other Hearst papers, including the Los Angeles Herald Examiner , for four consecutive days, from April 25 to 28, 1965. During every visit that

777-470: The early 1920s because of poor health, and a heart ailment kept him at home for the last eight years of his life, but he continued to produce sports comics for Hearst until his death. He died in Great Neck of heart disease , hastened by pneumonia . Hearst newspapers announced his passing in front-page headlines and some of his cartoons were reprinted for a short time. Izole, a writer before she married Dorgan,

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814-541: The facility have limited time for communicating by email with people who are searching for very old articles, the people who are searching should know the date of a Journal-American article to locate it on microfilm. Two scoops of The Journal was the printing of the confession of Herman Webster Mudghett aka Dr. H. H. Holmes a serial killer of Chicago in 1896 and the Jacob Smith order of 1902 Tad Dorgan Thomas Aloysius "Tad" Dorgan (April 29, 1877 – May 2, 1929)

851-519: The line of duty. The newspaper was famous for publishing many photographs with the "Journal-American Photo" credit line as well as news photographs from the Associated Press and other wire services . With one of the highest circulations in New York in the 1950s and 1960s, the Journal-American nevertheless had difficulties attracting advertising as its blue-collar reading base turned to television,

888-406: The morning New York American (since 1901) and the evening paper New York Evening Journal merged into New York Journal-American . The Journal-American was a publication with several editions in the afternoon and evening. In the early 1900s, Hearst weekday morning and afternoon papers around the country featured scattered black-and-white comic strips, and on January 31, 1912, Hearst introduced

925-607: The nation's first full daily comics page in the Evening Journal . On January 12, 1913, McManus launched his Bringing Up Father comic strip. The comics expanded into two full pages daily and a 12-page Sunday color section with leading King Features Syndicate strips. By the mid-1940s, the newspaper's Sunday comics included Bringing Up Father , Blondie , a full-page Prince Valiant , Flash Gordon , The Little King , Buz Sawyer , Feg Murray's Seein' Stars , Tim Tyler's Luck , Gene Ahern 's Room and Board and The Squirrel Cage , The Phantom , Jungle Jim , Tillie

962-951: The newspaper expired. Unlike two other New York City daily newspapers, the tabloid New York Daily News and The New York Times , the Journal-American has not been digitized and can not be accessed in a database or online archive. The newspaper is preserved on microfilm in New York City, Washington, DC, and Austin, Texas. Interlibrary loans make the microfilm accessible to people who cannot travel to those cities. The COVID-19 pandemic curtailed interlibrary loans, especially for researchers who need reels of microfilm that exist in very few places. On rare occasions, researchers have digitally scanned Journal-American pages, articles or columns, such as Dorothy Kilgallen's, from microfilm and shared them on social media and other websites. These are rare opportunities for historians to become familiar with this newspaper. The Journal-American photo morgue

999-499: The newspaper run by his former mentor Joseph Pulitzer and from whom he stole the cartoonists George McManus and Richard F. Outcault . In October 1896, Outcault defected to Hearst's New York Journal . Because Outcault had failed in his effort to copyright The Yellow Kid both newspapers published versions of the comic feature with George Luks providing the New York World with their version after Outcault left. The Yellow Kid

1036-461: The popular television program Twenty-One . O'Brian was a supporter of Senator Joseph McCarthy and his series of published attacks on CBS News and WCBS-TV reporter Don Hollenbeck , may have been a major factor in Hollenbeck's eventual suicide, referenced in the 1986 HBO film Murrow and the 2005 motion picture Good Night, and Good Luck . Ford Frick (1894–1978) was a sportswriter for

1073-524: The previous day's announcement by U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry that "a blue ribbon committee of scientists and doctors," in the words of reporter Jack Pickering, had concluded that cigarette smoking was dangerous. The Journal-American ' s feel of the pulse of the changing times of the mid-1960s hid the trouble that was going on behind the scenes at the paper, which was unknown to many New Yorkers until after it had ceased publication. Besides trouble with advertisers, another major factor that led to

1110-537: The rise of network news in the 1960s donated their clipping files and many darkroom prints of published photographs to libraries. The Hearst Corporation decided to donate the "basic back-copy morgue" of the Journal-American , according to a book about Dorothy Kilgallen, plus darkroom prints and negatives , according to other sources, to the University of Texas at Austin . Office memorandums and letters from politicians and other notables were shredded in 1966, shortly after

1147-399: The same days as her column on different pages, sometimes the front page. Regular Journal-American contributor Jimmy Cannon was one of the highest paid sports columnists in the United States. Society columnist Maury Henry Biddle Paul , who wrote under the pseudonym "Cholly Knickerbocker", became famous and coined the term "Café Society". John F. Kennedy contributed to the newspaper during

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1184-481: The victim of a general decline in the revenue of afternoon newspapers. While participating in a lock-out in 1965 after The New York Times and New York Daily News had been struck by a union, the Journal-American agreed it would merge (the following year) with its evening rival, the New York World-Telegram and Sun , and the morning New York Herald-Tribune . According to its publisher, publication of

1221-461: Was an Irish American cartoonist . He is known for his cartoon panel Indoor Sports and comic strip Judge Rummy , as well as the many English words and expressions he coined or popularized. Dorgan was born in San Francisco on April 29, 1877. He was one of at least eleven children —six sons and five daughters – of Thomas J. and Anna Dorgan. His brother John L. "Ike" Dorgan (born April 1879)

1258-481: Was inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame , as were colleagues Charley Feeney and Sid Mercer . Before becoming a news columnist elsewhere, Jimmy Breslin was a Journal-American sportswriter in the early 1960s. He authored the book Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? chronicling the season of the 1962 New York Mets . Sheilah Graham (1904–1988) was a reporter for the Journal-American before gaining fame as

1295-576: Was one of the first comic strips to be printed in color and gave rise to the phrase yellow journalism , used to describe the sensationalist and often exaggerated articles, which helped, along with a one-cent price tag, to greatly increase circulation of the newspaper. Many believed that as part of this, aside from any nationalistic sentiment, Hearst may have helped to initiate the Spanish–American War of 1898 with lurid exposes of Spanish atrocities against insurgents and foreign journalists. In 1937,

1332-492: Was publicity manager for the Madison Square Garden , and his brother Richard W. "Dick" Dorgan (born September 1892) was an illustrator and cartoonist. Polytechnic High School teachers Rosey Murdoch and Maria Van Vieck recognized and encouraged Tad's talent as an artist. When Dorgan was a child, he lost several fingers of his right hand in an accident whose details are unclear. Cosmopolitan writer O. O. McIntyre ,

1369-540: Was trying to keep up with the many mid-1960s changes in popular music and its interracial fan bases. It published enlarged photographs of civil rights demonstrations, Dorothy Kilgallen's skepticism about the Warren Commission report as well as many reporters' stories on the increasing crime rate in New York's five boroughs. Most of the front page of the Sunday edition of January 12, 1964 ran stories that were relevant to

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