Greetings: Greetings

Names were being dropped all over:

>Al Capp filled his Li'l Abner space with season's greetings to his pals, but Washington Publisher "Cissie" Patterson, who is mad at Walter Winchell and her ex-son-in-law, Drew Pearson, had their names routed out. Times-Herald readers who phoned in about the empty spaces were blandly told: typographical error.

> '47, having survived three shakeups in its first year, was glad to be able to call itself '48.

>Columnist Billy Rose dropped Manhattan's PM, which gave him his start, to get his name in bigger lights at the Herald Tribune.

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