Chowder and Marching Society (1939)

[Peter Richardson]

Cushclamocree! Somebody else remembers Barnaby and Mr. O'Malley!
(I recall the Little Men's..., but can't confirm the "Gnomes, Elves" part
of it.)

PR

On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Mark A Mandel wrote:

> On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>
> #   I was asked if I could beat 1942 for "Chowder and Marching
> #Society."  We have at least one Harvard person on the list.
>
> I don't know the date, but in Crockett Johnson's comic strip "Barnaby",
> ca. WW2 and probably a bit earlier, the leprechaun (or something
> similar) Mr. O'Malley is a member of the Gnomes, Elves, and Little Men's
> Chowder and Marching Society. I may have the name slightly off, but it
> definitely ends with the target phrase.
>
> -- Mark A. Mandel
>