"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
Under the patronage of St. Tammany
Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
And the song "Tammany" was the fight song of John McGraw's old New York Giants.
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Joe E. Brown, come to find out, inspired both Lippy the Lion and Peter Potamus. (Watch this trailer for Alibi Ike and you'll hear the resemblance.)
According to this tribute to voice actor Daws Butler, Wally Gator borrowed from Ed Wynn, Top Cat from Phil Silvers, Yogi Bear from Art Carney, and Snagglepuss from Bert Lahr, who almost sued.
Can you tell I've been watching a lot of the Boomerang Channel lately?
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