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Chester Gould

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Name: Chester Gould

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

The curious story of how the lie detector came to be

His classes at Northwestern were attended by cartoonist Chester Gould, who is said to have based the incorruptible, square-jawed Dick Tracy character on Keeler and his colleagues.Ninety years after its invention, the polygraph still has not been accepted ... [Published BBC - May 21 2013]

Entities: Polygraph, Gary Ridgway, Geraint Rees, Chester Gould

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Media Services Group Inc

Stantis: Farewell to a legendary cartoonist

_ Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Dick Locher, 83, has put the stopper in the ink bottle for the last time after more than 40 years of capturing modern life through political cartooning. He recently announced his retirement.Dick's career as ... [Published Chicago Tribune - May 20 2013]

Entities: Scott Stantis, Dick Tracy, Chester Gould, admiration, Media Services Group Inc

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Dick Tracy and the newspapers

There were two things that really excited me when I was a youngster — food and Sunday morning newspapers. We didn’t get the newspaper, but my grandmother did. She lived about a half an hour from our house but, regardless of the weather, I would walk over ... [Published San Mateo Daily Journal - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Dick Tracy, Chester Gould, 20th century, Buck Rogers

First reported Apr 28 2013 - Updated Apr 28 2013 - 1 reports

Historical Society

Peasley: Woodstock's history celebrated in May

A new two-year exhibit featuring Woodstock in the early 1960s will open at 1 p.m. May 5 at the McHenry County Historical Society Museum in Union.The exhibit will focus on two significant anniversaries in the 1960s ? the 50th anniversary of the Historical ... [Published Northwest Herald - Apr 28 2013]

Entities: Historical Society, Chester Gould, Jim Keefe, Sherry Anderson

First reported Jan 10 2013 - Updated Jan 10 2013 - 1 reports

Comics About Cartoonists: The World's Oddest Profession

div class="video-container"> My friend Craig Yoe has put together a new book with a bunch of vintage comic book stories about comic book artists! What's cooler than comics about cartoonist? NOTHING! This is mind-blowing, full-color hardback book ... [Published Boing Boing - Jan 10 2013]

Entities: Dick Briefer, George Herriman, Basil Wolverton, Ernie Bushmiller, Chester Gould

First reported Dec 18 2012 - Updated Dec 18 2012 - 1 reports

Postrel on Progress, by David Henderson

I wish I had been aware of Virginia Postrel's excellent piece on technological progress when I wrote my post yesterday on electricity . In it, she takes on the views of Jason Pontin, my former editor at the Red Herring, and Peter Thiel, of PayPal ... [Published EconLog - Dec 18 2012]

Entities: Virginia Postrel, David Henderson, Peter Thiel, Dick Tracy

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The curious story of how the lie detector came ... [Published BBC - May 21 2013]
Stantis: Farewell to a legendary cartoonist [Published Chicago Tribune - May 20 2013]
Dick Tracy and the newspapers [Published San Mateo Daily Journal - Apr 29 2013]
Peasley: Woodstock's history celebrated in May [Published Northwest Herald - Apr 28 2013]
Seduction of the Innocent: detective novel set ... [Published Boing Boing - Feb 19 2013]
Comics About Cartoonists: The World's Oddest Pr... [Published Boing Boing - Jan 10 2013]
Postrel on Progress, by David Henderson [Published EconLog - Dec 18 2012]

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Seduction of the Innocent: detective novel set ... [Published Boing Boing - Feb 19 2013] Seduction of the Innocent by Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition author) sounds like fun -- it's a detective novel that take place during the heyday of the anti-comic book hysteria of the 1950s, which was led by the evil Dr. Frederick Wertham, who ...
Comics About Cartoonists: The World's Oddest Pr... [Published Boing Boing - Jan 10 2013] div class="video-container"> My friend Craig Yoe has put together a new book with a bunch of vintage comic book stories about comic book artists! What's cooler than comics about cartoonist? NOTHING! This is mind-blowing, full-color hardback book ...
Postrel on Progress, by David Henderson [Published EconLog - Dec 18 2012] I wish I had been aware of Virginia Postrel's excellent piece on technological progress when I wrote my post yesterday on electricity . In it, she takes on the views of Jason Pontin, my former editor at the Red Herring, and Peter Thiel, of PayPal ...