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Tempo 2 Section 2 Chicago Tribune, Thursday, March 14, 1974 Paging people Tower Ticker Y- By Aaron Gold Now here's a really chic streak I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN that sooner or later, streaking was going to go legit. Today, from a.m., WLS' Bob Sirott, John Landecker, Fred Winston, Yvonne Daniels, and Steve King, will begin collecting for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. The official tag days are tomorrow and Saturday. If they collect $500 by 11:55 a.m., Sirott, who's the chairman of Shamrocks for Dystrophy, has promised to streak at noon across the Michigan Avenue Bridge. and Jim Szanlor continues to be confused by the streaking phenomenon.

He can't decide whether it's a take-off or a put-on. PETER DOUGLAS, KIRK DOUGLAS' 23-year-old photographer son, has been in town with his Chicago agent, A Plus' Phyllis Carlyle, discussing his newly formed Byrna International. The company, according to Peter, "is equipped to photograph the most ordinary, or the most outrageous subject matter anywhere in the world, on a day's notice." Peter, ft "Gertrude Enelow and William McCormick Blair the Deerpath Inn. "Carol Fox and Clem Stone any 31 Flavors. "The whole thing," sums up Reader, "could be kicked off March 16 at the Grand Ballroom at the Hilton Hotel with Sis Daley and Judge Walter Cummings streaking the Irish Fellowship Dinner." YOU WON'T find Adolfo showing his designs in a private home again not that he likes to anyway, but especially after a cocktail-buffet showing Monday in the William Grahams' Kenilworth residence.

One member of the Save the Children benefit committee for the opening of "The Great Gatsby" April 4, who knows Adolfo and who says he never becomes ruffled or upset, claims he was really angered by what he considered rude behavior on the part of the committee. "If it were Scaasl, or one of those temperamental designers who always are losing their tempers and stamping their feet, I wouldn't notice. They always have a low boiling point," says Adolfo's Chicago friend. "But Adolfo is a gentleman." The rub came when his Gatsby-inspired designs were shown in two living rooms instead of around the indoor pool, as -originally planned, so the commentator's remarks were heard only in one room. But when committee members asked even before the show started how long it would last, and when one came and asked him to cut it short because of the time element, and because people "were bored," the designer had enough.

Invited to join the guests for a drink, the Coty award winner told an acquaintance "I can't wait to get out of this By Eleanor Page BONNIE Swearingen and Dr. Morris Fishbein streaking in Union Station at 8:23 a.m.? Norman Ross and Leo Guthman streaking at noon in the Narcissus Room at Fields? Those are two suggestions in a "bonanza of streaking" put forward by a correspondent who notes the benefit dollar is harder than ever to raise, and public relations symposium speakers say again and again the news emphasis now is on "names and ideas." Therefore, suggests our "Constant Reader," any charity willing to do the necessary ground work can raise a great deal of money and attract a lot of attention from the news media by capitalizing on the "streaking" fad. A natural followup to the successful Walks-for-the-Char-ity-of-Your-Choice would be the Streak-for-Some-Worthy-Cause! ENTRY fees could be collected on a single or double entry basis, concessions could be set up, possibly commercial sponsorship could be obtained, and even advertis- ing might be displayed on "epidermis space." Our correspondent included some possibilities in the double entry category together with streaking sites, as mentioned above. Others on the list are: "Mary Block and the Rev. Dr.

Elam Davles Stagg Field. "Barbi Benton and Adlai Stevenson III Pioneer Court. "Mrs. Clive Runnells and Preston Bradley Lincoln -Park Conservatory. "Marge Wild and Dawn Clark Netsch The Chicago Club.

I TribuneHardy Wieting Mrs. Stephen Seftenberg, Chicago Vassar Club president, will greet those who attend the club's meeting to announce its scholarship benefit cock-tail gala tomorrow at the Findlay Galleries. cm Sirott Hatcher Cagney Whimsy and wit rule the land of the Peanuts gang Cont. from 1st Tempo page from the time I was a child. who is lark Spitz's principal photographer, left town quickly yesterday so he could listen to his father sing as a member of the Dirty Rats with Shirley MacLaine and George Segal at last night's American Film Institute tribute to James Cagney in L.A.'s Century Plaza Hotel.

CBS taped the event for telecasting from 8:30 to 10 p.m. Monday. LONDON HOUSE'S LIONEL HAMPTON told WBBM's Sherman Kaplan that his lifelong dream is to return to Israel and record "The King David Suite" which he composed with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra. Chicago's very own comedy team of Tim and Tom makes its West Coast nightclub debut Monday at the Century City Playboy Club in California. THE BULLET-RIDDLED 1934 yellow Ford used in the motion picture "Bonnie and Clyde" is enroute to Jerry Born's Antique Auto Museum in Highland Park.

Ivanhoe's Betsy Palmer opening March 28 in "Dark at the Top of the had a reunion with her mother, Mrs. Marie Hrunck, of East Chicago, over a dinner Betsy cooked her Belden-Stratford Hotel suite. And Jimmy Damon and Red Buttons will be wearing ecumenical green satin ties decorated with shamrocks and a star of David for St. Patrick's Day, courtesy of Michigan Avenue haberdasher Phil Snerman. TICKER TOUTING: The new Big Johns Distillery in the John Hancock building's lower level, and its singing star Kim Martcll she's sensational; Roy Strong's Houghton Mifflin book, "Splendor at the Jack Beal-Jim Nutt-Joseph Raffael exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art; "Et Tu, Kohoutek" at Second City; and the $3 per person Sunday brunches at Junius' Restaurant.

BEAR COACH ABE GIBRON will socialize with his former quarterback Virgil Carter of the Chicago Fire when they both turn up as guests at the sold out March 22 Variety Club Celebrity Ball. The rock group Puzzle, originally slated for a date at the now-closed Ruggles, has been rescheduled for March 28-31 at the Orphans. The group's new Motown album already is on the charts. Today thru Thursday, the Blackstone Hotel's sign will read in green letters The Blarney Stone. Happy birthday to Michael Caine and WCFL's Tom Murphy.

THURSDAY HAPPENINGS: The grand opening of Some-body Else's Troubles, a new folk club on Lincoln Avenue, with Steve Goodman and Fred Holstein; Charlie Mingus at the Quiet Knight; David Steinberg hosts ABC's "Movies, Movies, Movies" Part II, with Jack Lemmon, Lloyd Bridges and his two sons, Jeff and Beau, and Richard Chamberlain; and the Committee to Elect Arvey TJake Arvey's grandson, James "Terry," who's running for State Rep. from the 13th district is hosting a get-together at Martingayle's. And at the National Conference on Higher Education at the Conrad Hilton, Gary's Mayor Richard Hatcher said: "Some of us are not too impressed with this new fad of streaking. We've had it for years in the ghetto, but we just called it being poor." rather cruel, tho I also had some close calls and nearly made it. Q.

When did you know you were ready? A. One day I was sitting at my desk at Art Instruction and I drew a simple three-panel strip. A little girl was walking along in the rain, sort of leaning against it, saying, "Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain." In the second panel, she meets a little boy walking the opposite direction and he has an umbrella. Then in the third panel, she's walking away with the umbrella, and he's walking in the opposite direction, saying "Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain." I believed I had. something.

Something unlike anything that had been done at that time. I experimented with this sort of tiling and finally sent a batch of these three-panel cartoons to United Feature Syndicate in New York. Q. Instant success? A. Hardly.

It took a long, step by step, march. Peanuts, Dennis the Menace, Pogo, and Beetle Bailey all started about the same time, 1950. The others took off right away, but I came plodding along much later. Lots of papers used to publish it back in the want ads, and I had to work my way forward. The Chicago Tribune, by the way, was one of the first papers to support the strip.

I'm grateful. Q. You took some of the names of characters from of an innovator. What things did you bring to strips? A. I think I was willing to risk things.

I was deeply honored when Walt Kelly Pogo called me "The best of the starters." I was the first guy to put authentic music in a comic strip, for instance; Schroeder doesn't just play notes. I probably was the first to use Biblical quotations and talk about them in a funny yet dignified way. I've also used a lot of "in" humor. I know that many people won't understand it, but those who do will doubly appreciate it. Q.

You mean like Snoopy writing "It's Been a Hard Life," by Dogstoevski? A. that sort of thing. But if I have to talk about myself, I really do consider myself an authority on how a comic strip should be done. I'm not being egotistical. Q.

How shouldn't they be done? A. I believe there Is a dangerous trend developing where artists deliberately try to be sophisticated or relevant. Some take a certain historical period and use modern terms. This becomes formula, not creative humor. Of some cartoonists do it quite well Johnny Hart does it fine.

In B. he has them talking about baseball and it comes out funny. And in a way, it's what I've been doing with the kids. But I think I go beyond the formula. Q.

Can we talk about the products, the spinoffs, for a moment? A. Sure. I'm very sensitive about them because I'm proud of what we have done in 90 per cent of the products. We watch everything very carefully. The licensed companies design their own things, but I have final approval, and we try very hard for quality control.

So I'm always dismayed when it's charged that we have overcommercialized the strip. Q. Do you have any contact with other cartoonists? A. Not much. Gary Tru-deau Doonesbury dropped by recently with a magazine article about the new cartoonists.

I was kind of stunned to discover I wasn't among them. It makes me realize after 24 years, I'm not a new cartoonist any more. Q. What would you consider to be the most satisfying thing you've ever done? A. One of the most satis-; fying things for me has been sitting in theaters when they performed "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown." To see and hear lines that I had thought of, some of them 20 years ago.

To see what they had done with my charac-- ters, and to hear people laughing and really having a good time. And when the lights came up, watching people file out with families and children, laughing. That made me wonderfully happy. your colleagues at Art Instruction, didn't you? A. Yes.

Charlie Brown, Linus Mauer, and Frieda Rich. Snoopy? He sort of was patterned after a dog I had as a kid. The word "Beagle" worked as when Lucy would say, "You stupid beagle!" I liked the sound of it had a nice feel to it. Q. Do you think of qualities you want in a character and then decide to make it, say, a bird? Or do you think of a bird and then assign qualities to it? A.

It sort of evolves. I'd been drawing birds, for 15 years, but they weren't funny at first, very realistic, tho not drawn very well. I think they first became funny when Snoopy woke up one morning and discovered they had built a nest on his stomach. Then the babies were born and he was stuck with them. They were the first ones, with i little fuzzy tops, but the heads weren't as big as Woodstock's.

Then I drew birds that flew I like words like "Flitter, flitter, flitter," and "Flutter, flutter, flutter," and finally they became one bird and I started to draw him better and better. The same happened with Snoopy. At first he was quite a realistic little dog, but as time passed he became more of a caricature and could do more things, until now he almost has taken over the strip. Q. Your reputation is that After the war, I was working for Art Instruction Schools in Minneapolis I'd taken their correspondence course.

I'd draw every day and correct exercises, as did everyone else in the department. One day while fiddling around, I drew a cartoon of a little boy and girl sitting on a curb. The boy held a baseball bat and he was telling the girl, "You know, Judy, I could really love you if your batting average was a little bit higher." It doesn't sound like much, but the other artists liked it and advised me to try some more. So I started drawing little kids, and gradually sold some cartoons. I also think this was a product of the time other, cartoonists were drawing teeny kids looking up at huge adults and saying outrageous things, so I don't pretend to have invented it.

I used to bundle up the cartoons and talce the Burlington to Chicago and visit the syndicates. It was a great trip. I'd get on the train in the morning, ride along the Mississippi Valley and arrive in Chicago about 3 p. m. I'd spend the night in a hotel by myself, and the next morning I'd visit the syndicates, get rejected by them all, and take the train home again.

Q. Why were you rejected? A. In most cases, I simply wasn't far enough along. Some of the editors were questions, and what else is there to say? Someone re- -cently wanted to know why Snoopy chased the Red Baron since he wasn't alive when the Red Baron was they misunderstand the whole thing and I got depressed. Besides, if I have anything important to I'll save it for the strip.

Q. Many of your colleagues have helpers. Why do you work alone? A. Too much pride, I guess. But don't let anybody tell you they put more into the drawing than I do.

I just draw from day to day, always trying to get ahead, and often running into dry spells. I don't script, but an ideal, quota for me is six daily strips in two days, and another day for the Sunday page. This way I get the week's work done in three days, which gives me time to mull over the next week. Q. This doesn't seem to allow you much time off.

A. I'm not really fond of vacations. I love what I do. Q. How did the strip evolve? What made you select little kids? A.

In my late teens, I was a great admirer of Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy, and I used to envision doing a strip like that. Then after World War II, I got hold of a copy of Krazy Kat, and that was inspirational to me. I wanted to develop some kind of comic strip Diaper dilemma 0 1 sniiif? Getting to the bottom line on baby's rash By Jean Bond Kotulak EVEN THE healthiest infant can suffer from diaper rash, and suggested so-, lutions to the widespread malady abound. The latest word on the subject is that the problem may be not in the baby but in the diaper. Results of a study of the relationship of diaper rash to various laundering me thods was issued recently in Clinical Pediatrics Magazine.

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Why does increasing age affect diaper rash? The doctors explain that a young infant is changed more frequently because his parents give him more attention and because he lets his discomfort be known by crying. dering. The number of rinses seemed to bear no significance. Bacterial infection and ammonial contact dermatitis are among the most common causes of diaper rash, according to the study. Using bleach and ammonia compounds and sterile absorbent diaper liners has helped to reduce rash, according to the study.

"The significantly lower incidence of diaper rash in infants using commercially laundered diapers is most, likely due to the fact that they are not only thoroly rinsed of all chemical contaminants, but' are virtually sterile," Dr. Grant said. The researchers cited a study comparing commer--daily laundered diapers and? home laundered. Home laun-. --'-v ''f W.JVW mi DENNIS THE MENACE.

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