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- PEOPLE, Page 61A Lovable Winner
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- By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- At first, good ol' Charlie Brown "was going to be a
- smart-alecky little guy," says CHARLES SCHULZ, 66. But instead
- Peanuts' creator made him into a lovable loser. Inspiration was
- close at hand, says columnist RHETA GRIMSLEY JOHNSON in her
- upcoming biography Good Grief: The Story of Charles M. Schulz.
- "For Schulz," she says, "humor comes from sad things, not happy
- things. All of life's embarrassments remain fresh." One memory
- is especially poignant. In 1950 a real-life "little red-haired
- girl" spurned his marriage proposal. Says Schulz, who dashed off
- a self-portrait for this item: "You never get over a loss like
- that."
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