On 16 December he wrote a note to Lord Carson: "I will never draw down the blinds until I am a political corpse, but, if I do, it will be by an honest blow delivered in open fight and not by a syphilitic dagger from the syndicated press".
Gawker looked at 143 regular opinion columnists from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, The Creators Syndicate, Universal Press, King Features, and Tribune Media.
CARTOONS (Cartoons by Tony Auth/The Philadelphia Inquirer, Universal Press Syndicate; Scott Stantis/The Birmingham News, Creators Syndicate; Jimmy Margulies/The Record (Hackensack, N.J)., King Features Syndicate).
CARTOONS: Chan Lowe: South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Tribune Media Services; Rob Rogers: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, United Feature Syndicate; Ted Rall: Universal Press Syndicate; Joe Heller: Green Bay Press-Gazette, Heller Syndication.
Mr. Sobran also wrote a syndicated column for The Los Angeles Times and Universal Press Syndicate, and regularly appeared on the CBS radio series "Spectrum".
In 1965, there were about half a dozen underground papers, according to the Underground Press Syndicate.
FINALISTS -- Steve Sack, The Minneapolis Star Tribune; Garry Trudeau, Universal Press Syndicate, for Doonesbury.
Another division of the company is Universal Press Syndicate, which distributes "Garfield," "Calvin and Hobbes" and "Doonesbury," among others.
"Doonesbury" distributor Universal Press Syndicate points out that "Duke's" mind has been scrambled by alcohol and drugs.
Mr. Watterson explained his decision to stop the strip in a letter to the Universal Press Syndicate, which published the strip: "I believe I've done what I can do within the constraints of daily deadlines and small panels.
It didn't help that, as Peter Hessler noted in the magazine earlier this year, Morsi removed the entire leadership of the government-run press syndicate and replaced it with a slew of Brotherhood appointees.
