The James Logan Courier

By Sam Mellinger
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Please, put down the fork. You're embarrassing yourself.

Your Sunday breakfast is strictly amateur. What is that, one waffle? Two eggs? And you're taking your time? You're chewing?

Dude, you are a French poodle in the pit-bull world of competitive eating.

"Have you ever seen somebody eat 10 pounds of meatballs in 12 minutes?" asks Bob Shoudt. "That's more meatballs than a normal person eats in probably a year."

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Richard F. Outcault, The Yellow Kid. He meets Tige and Mary Jane and Buster Brown, Pencil, ink, and watercolor.Published in the New York American Examiner, July 7, 1907.

From the Library of Congress:
This spectacular piece by Richard Outcault features the introduction of two great comic strip characters, Mickey Dugan, also known as "The Yellow Kid," and his immensely popular successor, Buster Brown. Here we can see the adoption of what became the standard Sunday format - twelve regularly spaced panels crowded with detailed drawing and text. In this story, Buster Brown, the twelve-year-old scion of a Manhattan family in the wealthy Murray Hill neighborhood heads to the tenements of Hogan's Alley in a dream. In a nod to another great comic strip of the period, Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland, Outcault has Buster Brown wake up from his nightmare and resolve not to slumber. Outcault guided the engravers by coloring only the new elements in the comic strip.

From wikipedia:

Dame Marie Tempest, DBE (15 July 1864–15 October 1942), was an English singer and actress known as the "queen of her profession". She was also, on occasions, her own manager during a career spanning 55 years.

Life and career
Tempest was born Mary Susan Etherington in London and was educated in Belgium. Later, she studied music in Paris and at the Royal Academy of Music in London, as a singing pupil (a soprano) of Manuel García, the tutor of Jenny Lind. At nineteen years of age, she married to Alfred Edward Izard. That marriage subsequently ended in divorce.


Read an amusing anecdote from the long acting career of Dame Marie Tempest, free from anecdotage.com.