Walter Diemer Diemer died of congestive heart failure in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on his 94th birthday. Saturday Night Live joked that his body was found stuck under a movie theatre seat. Walter Diemer Walter E. Diemer (January 8, 1904 – January 8, 1998) was an accountant and inventor of bubble gum. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Diemer was working as an accountant at Fleer in 1926 when the company president sought to cut costs by making their own gum base. The company's founder, Frank Henry Fleer, had previously made a batch of bubble gum in 1906 which he called "Blibber Blubber", but
Dopey Dick the Pink Whale Dopey Dick the Pink Whale Dopey Dick the Pink Whale is the 80th animated cartoon short subject in the "Woody Woodpecker" series. Released theatrically on November 15, 1957, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal International. On board the Peapod, Captain Dooley enlists his crew in another attempt to get after Dopey Dick, the Pink Whale, who was often notorious for biting Dooley in the backside and tearing a hole in his seat. After the crew (not to mention the rats) desert him, he snatches Woody Woodpecker in his latest attempt to get at the