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Comic strip artist Mort Walker  a World War II veteran who satirized the Army and tickled millions of newspaper readers with the antics of the lazy private "Beetle Bailey " died Saturday.  He  was 94.
 Walker  died at  his  home in Stamford  Connecticut  said Greg Walker  his eldest son and a collaborator. His father's advanced age was the cause of death  he said.
 Walker  began publishing cartoons at age 11 and was involved with more than a half-dozen comic strips in  his  career  including "Hi and Lois " ''Boner's Ark" and "Sam & Silo." But  he  found  his  greatest success drawing slacker Beetle   his  hot-tempered sergeant and the rest of the gang at fictional Camp Swampy for nearly 70 years.
The character that was to become  Beetle Bailey  made  his  debut as Spider in  Walker 's cartoons published by the Saturday Evening Post in the late 1940s.  Walker  changed Spider's name and launched  "Beetle Bailey"  as a college humor strip in 1950.
At first the strip failed to attract readers and King Features Syndicate considered dropping it after just six months   Walker  said in a 2000 interview with The Associated Press. The syndicate suggested  Beetle  join the Army after the start of the Korean War   Walker  said.
"I was kind of against it because after World War II  Bill Mauldin and Sad Sack were fading away " he said. But his misgivings were overcome and  Beetle  "enlisted" in 1951.
 Walker  attributed the success of the strip to Beetle's indolence and reluctance to follow authority.
"Most people are sort of against authority "  he  said. "Here's  Beetle  always challenging authority. I think people relate to it."
 "Beetle Bailey"  led to spin-off comic strip "Hi and Lois " which  he  created with Dik Browne  in 1954. The premise was that  Beetle  went home on furlough to visit  his  sister Lois and brother-in-law Hi.
Fellow cartoonists remembered  Walker  on Saturday as a pleasant man who adored his fans. Bill Morrison  president of the National Cartoonists Society  called  Walker  the definition of "cartoonist" in a post on the society's website.
" He  lived and breathed the art every day of  his  life.  He  will be sorely missed by  his  friends in the NCS and by a world of comic strip fans " Morrison said.
Fellow cartoonist Mark Evanier said on his website that  Walker  was "delightful to be around and always willing to draw  Beetle  or Sarge for any of his fans. He sure had a lot of them."
"Beetle Bailey " which appeared in as many as 1 800 newspapers  sometimes sparked controversy. The Tokyo editions of the military newspaper Stars & Stripes dropped it in 1954 for fear that it would encourage disrespect of its officers. But ensuing media coverage spurred more than 100 newspapers to add the strip.
Shortly after President Bill Clinton took office   Walker  drew a strip suggesting that the draft be retroactive in order to send Clinton to Vietnam.  Walker  said  he  received hundreds of angry letters from Clinton supporters.
For years   Walker  drew Camp Swampy's highest-ranking officer  Gen. Amos Halftrack  ogling his secretary  Miss Buxley. Feminist groups claimed the strip made light of sexual harassment  and  Walker  said the syndicate wanted  him  to write out the lecherous general.
That wasn't feasible because the general was such a fixture in the strip   Greg Walker  said Saturday.  His  father solved the problem in 1997 by sending Halftrack to sensitivity training.
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' Beetle Bailey' cartoonist Mort Walker dies at 94


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Warren Buffett's  plans to eventually pass the reins of Berkshire Hathaway to a successor took has taken a major new step. On Tuesday   Buffett  laid out why Greg Abel  CEO of Berkshire Hathaway  and Ajit Jain  head of its insurance operations  will join Charlie Munger as vice chairman of the $500 billion conglomerate.
Jain  by contrast  oversees Berkshire's gigantic insurance outfit  where he's shown deft underwriting skill and the discipline to trim exposures to overly competitive markets like catastrophic insurance and reinsurance when pricing is unfavorable. A native of India  Jain came to the U.S. to get an MBA at Harvard and then cut his teeth at consultancy McKinsey. In 1985  he was hired by  Buffett  to work in Berkshire's insurance operations. Said  Buffett  in a 2009 shareholder letter  "I immediately knew we had found a superstar." A decade later  the division was bolstered by  Buffett 's acquisition of the Geico shares Berkshire didn't already own. From an insurance float of $3.6 billion in 1995  Berkshire's float now stands at about $100 billion annually.
In addition to Abel and Jain  Berkshire's investing business also has two rising figures.  Buffett  is increasing  his  allocations of Berkshire funds to lieutenants Todd Combs and Ted Weschler  who each manage over $10 billion  and have led the conglomerate to positions ranging from Apple to Charter Communications.
As succession plans harden   Buffett  and Munger will continue in their existing positions. That means they will continue to be overseeing major capital allocation decisions and investment activities  for instance any major deals. In addition to making headlines for Berkshire's succession plans   Buffett  also made headlines for  his  views on the wider investing landscape.
Most notably   Buffett  said tax reform will have a big impact on Berkshire's owners  telling CNBC's Quick that shareholders effectively have seen their ownership of  the company 's profits rise by over 20% as corporate rates have fallen from 35% to 21%.
About crypto currencies   Buffett  said today's euphoria inevitably will lead to heart break. "If I could buy a five year put on any of the crypto currencies I would do it "  Buffett  said  admitting  he  would never short the speculative asset because it's not something  he  knows well.  He  dished out the following common sense  "why in the world should I take a short position in something I don't know anything about."
But  his  views are crystal clear. "I think what's going on definitely will come to a bad ending "  Buffett  said.
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Berkshire Hathaway Names Abel And Jain As Vice Chairmen As Buffett Succession Plans Sharpen


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Arizona Rep. Trent Franks resigned effective immediately Friday afternoon amid damning reports that he made unwanted sexual advances toward female staffers and offered at least one of them millions of dollars to carry a surrogate baby for him and his wife.
 GOP Rep. Trent Franks  resigns amid 'inappropriate behavior' claim
A few hours later  Politico reported that  Franks  had not just approached  his  female staffers about surrogacy — but also seemingly proposed sexual intercourse as a means to impregnate them.
The women said they decided to file complaints with the House Ethics Committee because they were concerned  Franks  was asking about sex  not artificial insemination.
GOP sources aware of the complaints said one of the women claimed she was retaliated against after rebuffing  Franks ' lewd proposal  having her previous access to the congressman revoked.
Also Friday  the Associated Press reported that  Franks  had offered one of the women a whopping $5 million to act as a surrogate for  him  and  his  wife. The woman claimed  Franks  pressed her repeatedly about surrogacy after she initially rebuffed  him .
In addition to talks of surrogacy   Franks  tried to convince a female aide that they were in love after sending her an article describing how two people know they love each other  according to the Politico report.
 Franks'  abrupt resignation comes as Washington  D.C.  reels from a sexual harassment scandal involving dozens of male politicians. Just hours before  Franks  initially announced  his  resignation  Democratic Sen. Al Franken stepped down in response to shocking claims that he sexually harassed a number of women. A few days before that  Franks’ Democratic House colleague John Conyers announced his resignation amid a sexual harassment scandal of his own.
 Franks  forcefully denied ever engaging in sexual misconduct in a lengthy statement on Thursday.
House Speaker Paul Ryan accepted Franks’ resignation on Friday. The House ethics investigation into the shocking claims against  Franks  has thereby been called off  the committee said.
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Rep. Franks proposed sex to female staffers he had offered money