He based his world-famous comic strip on the antics of his real-life son, who remains a menace long after changing his surname to Rodman.
As an ABC news correspondent covering the White House, Vietnam and the Dominican Republic, Bruner earned a Peabody Award nomination in 1965; by '68 he was hosting What's My Line? Is it any wonder that we never heard of him?
(d) November 4th, 1997