A Crowded Life in Comics

Mell, Miss Peach, Momma… and
The Producers



by Rick Marschall



When the New York
Herald-Tribune was in its last gasps in the 1950s, it truly was a “gray
lady” (the nickname often applied to the New York Times) in view of its
stately dignity, rarified pedigree, and, um, imminent demise.



The merger of the New York Tribune,
child of the eccentric vegetarian, Republican critic of