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with mine. It helped the paper so much that Clare stayed there for 15 years, seven years longer than I did. To my notion, he drew no dud cartoons. I never knew anyone who so enjoyed working. Often while drawing a cartoon I have seen him laugh uproariously at it. He was a sweet and merry boy, if a
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and home to a majority of the top commercial illustrators of the day. During the 1920s, the New
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Clare and Ruth Owen Briggs were together for 29 years and had three children. They divorced in
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rotten poker player, and the public, poorer for his leaving it, is a big winner in having him at all.
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