A slight adjustment

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So, of course, just after posting that message about Schulz and women’s athletes, I discovered that I’d missed one adult women golfing cartoon… and it’s one that doesn’t go along with what I was saying (although it hardly surmounts my more general statement.)Perhaps I can be forgiven for having missed it because it’s a little thing, quite literally; this was one of the mini-cartoons that appeared in the upper right of “It’s Only a Game” in papers that ran it in its full Sunday strip format. (This one is from October 26, 1958.)

 

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