home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- <text id=89TT2146>
- <title>
- Aug. 21, 1989: A Lovable Winner
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Aug. 21, 1989 How Bush Decides
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 61
- A Lovable Winner
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
- </p>
- <p> 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."
- </p>
-
- </body></article>
- </text>
-
-