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Subject: Re: Finding Our Boarding House
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Date: Sat, 8-Feb-86 14:12:00 EST
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About "Our Boarding House":

From _The Comics_, by Jerry Robinson, p. 229:

       _Our Boarding House_, later to star the bombastic, stuffed-shirt
    Major Hoople, was created by Gene Ahern in 1921 with the _Squirrel Cage_
    as the top.  NOV SHMOZ KA POP, a nonsense line that was widely parroted,
    originated in the _Squirrel Cage_.  _Our Boarding House_ was continued
    after Ahern's death by Bill Freyse for many years and recently by Les
    Carroll and Tom McCormick.  Ahern, who previously did _Auto Otto_, left
    Newspaper Enterprise Association and created _Room and Board_ for King
    Features in 1934 with Judge Puffle taking on the Major Hoople persona.


Jack Applin
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