Gaar Campbell Williams (December 12, 1880 - June 15, 1935) was a prominent American cartoonist who worked for the Indianapolis News and the Chicago Tribune . His scenes of horse-and-buggy days in small towns of the Victorian era included situations taken from memories of his childhood in his hometown of Richmond, Indiana . Labeled the "Hoosier Cartoonist" or the " James Whitcomb Riley of the Pencil", his cartoon panels captured the flavor of a bygone era to the degree they were deemed worthy of reprinting in the mid-20th century years after his death.
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32-861: A bar mitzvah at age 13. Adams graduated from the Armour Scientific Academy (now Illinois Institute of Technology ) in 1899, attended the University of Michigan for one year and worked in insurance for three years. Signing on with the Chicago Daily Journal in 1903, he wrote a sports column and then a humor column, "A Little About Everything." The following year he moved to the New York Evening Mail , where he worked from 1904 to 1913 and began his column, then called "Always in Good Humor," which used reader contributions. During his time on
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64-600: Is best known for his newspaper column, "The Conning Tower", and his appearances as a regular panelist on radio's Information Please . A prolific writer of light verse, he was a member of the Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s and '30s. Adams was born Franklin Leopold Adams to German Jewish immigrants Moses and Clara Schlossberg Adams in Chicago on November 15, 1881. He changed his middle name to "Pierce" when he had
80-615: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Gaar Williams He drew his first cartoons for publication while he was the staff artist for the Richmond High School magazine, Argus . After studies at Cincinnati Art Academy and the Chicago Art Institute , Williams began cartooning in 1904 for the Chicago Daily News , where he stayed for three years. He joined
96-600: The Chicago Tribune , where he stayed for the next 14 years. The Tribune reprinted his work in at least a dozen portfolios: Zipper (1935) reprinted 25 of his 1932-34 cartoons about the dog Zipper. Hunting and Fishing (1935) reprinted 30 of his cartoons from 1927-34. Others were Among the Folks in History (four portfolios), Mort Green and Wife , Our Secret Ambition , Something Ought to be Done About This , Static , A Strain on
112-603: The Evening Mail , Adams wrote what remains his best known work, the poem " Baseball's Sad Lexicon ," a tribute to the Chicago Cubs ' double play combination of " Tinker to Evers to Chance ". In 1911, he added a second column, a parody of Samuel Pepys 's Diary , with notes drawn from F.P.A.'s personal experiences. In 1914, he moved his column to the New-York Tribune , where it was famously retitled "The Conning Tower" and
128-752: The Indianapolis News in 1909. In Indianapolis, where he had a growing reputation as a designer of book plates, he married Magdalena "Lena" Engelbert, a graduate of Earlham College in his hometown. His well-known drawings include The End of a Perfect Day , depicting the American doughboy returning from World War I, and Long Boy , published on the William Herschell song sheet. After illustrating Keeping Up with William (Bobbs-Merrill, 1918) by Irving Bacheller , he illustrated Ring Lardner 's The Young Immigrunts (Bobbs-Merrill, 1920). In 1921, Williams moved to
144-898: The Tribune . He moved to the New York World in 1922, and his column appeared there until the paper merged with the inferior New York Telegram in 1931. He returned to his old paper, by then called the New York Herald Tribune , until 1937, and finally moved to the New York Post , where he ended his column in September 1941. During its long run, "The Conning Tower" featured contributions from such writers as Robert Benchley , Edna Ferber , Moss Hart , George S. Kaufman , Edna St. Vincent Millay , John O'Hara , Dorothy Parker and Deems Taylor . Having one's work published in "The Conning Tower"
160-750: The Family Tie and Wotta Life! Wotta Life! By the time of his death in 1935, his cartoons were being published in 39 newspapers. He was buried at Earlham Cemetery in Richmond, Indiana. Some of his political cartoons were reprinted in George Hecht's The War in Cartoons: A History of the War in 100 Cartoons by 27 of the Most Prominent American Cartoonists (Dutton, 1919). One of his cartoon features, Among
176-540: The Folks in History , was collected as a book published by the Book and Print Guild in 1935 and reprinted by Rand McNally in 1947, followed by How to Keep from Growing Old (Rand McNally, 1948) with an introduction by Franklin P. Adams . Franklin P. Adams Franklin Pierce Adams (November 15, 1881 – March 23, 1960) was an American columnist known as Franklin P. Adams and by his initials F.P.A. Famed for his wit, he
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#1732852205924192-494: The house in West 13th Street between Sixth and Seventh where F.P.A. lived, and the block seemed to tremble under my feet—the way Park Avenue trembles when a train leaves Grand Central." Adams is credited with coining the term " aptronym " for last names that fit a person's career or job title, although it was later refined to "aptonym" by Frank Nuessel in 1992. As a panelist on radio's Information Please (1938–48), Franklin P. Adams
208-405: Was considered to be "the pinnacle of verbal wit". During World War I , Adams was in the U.S. Army , serving in military intelligence and also writing a column, "The Listening Post," for Stars and Stripes editor Harold Ross . While serving in the army, he became a captain. After the war, the so-called "comma-hunter of Park Row " (for his knowledge of the language) returned to New York and
224-413: Was enough to launch a career, as in the case of Dorothy Parker and James Thurber . Parker quipped, "He raised me from a couplet." Parker dedicated her 1936 publication of collected poems, Not So Deep as a Well , to F.P.A. Many of the poems in that collection were originally published in "The Conning Tower". Much later, the writer E. B. White freely admitted his sense of awe: "I used to walk quickly past
240-778: Was the Merchant of Venice ?" Adams: " Antonio ." Golenpaul: "Most people would say ' Shylock .'" Adams: "Not in my circle.") John Kieran was the real Shakespearean expert and could quote from his works at length. A translator of Horace and other classical authors, F.P.A. also collaborated with O. Henry on Lo , a musical comedy. Adams died in Manhattan and was cremated at the Ferncliff Crematory in Hartsdale . The ashes were buried in Ferncliff Cemetery but have no marker. Adams
256-433: Was the designated expert on poetry, old barroom songs and Gilbert and Sullivan , which he always referred to as Sullivan and Gilbert. A running joke on the show was that his stock answer for quotes that he didn't know was that Shakespeare was the author. (Perhaps that was a running gag : Information Please' s creator/producer Dan Golenpaul auditioned Adams for the job with a series of sample questions, starting with: "Who
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