Correct the record

While searching for something else, I stumbled across this announcement of the Kaye Ballard Peanuts album in the Chicago Sunday Times Magazine for January 15, 1961.

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Now, let’s take a zoom in on that drawing… and its caption.

Magazine sections are generally created with a long lead time, allowing them to be printed in different printing plants than the main paper. It was six weeks later before the letters to the editor showed up, with both Deborah Graham and Patricia Gustafson taking the paper to task for making such a misidentification. There was, alas, no report on how Violet took the news.

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