who was joseph pulitzer and what did he do?
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 Young reporter Tintin , his dog Snowy , and his friend Captain Haddock spend an evening at the music hall . There , they witness the performance of a clairvoyant , Madame Yamilah , who predicts the illness of one of the Sanders @-@ Hardiman expedition members , who recently returned from an archaeological expedition to the Andes mountains . They also view the act of a knife thrower whom Tintin recognises as General Alcazar , former President of San Theodoros . Meeting him backstage , Alcazar introduces them to his Indio assistant , Chiquito , and learn that he was deposed ( once again ) by his rival General Tapioca . 

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 As Johnson became successful and his reputation grew , other publishers began including him in congers — syndicates that spread the risk of publishing a costly or inflammatory book among several firms . 

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 Hergé 's decision to name a character Topolino was a reference to Walt Disney , whose character of Mickey Mouse was known as Topolino in Italian . Hergé included a reference to his friend and colleague , the former opera singer Edgar P. Jacobs , in the story , adding a figure named Jacobini to the billing on the opera performance alongside Castafiore . He also inserted a cameo of himself as a reporter into the final scene of the story . 

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 Although never gaining wide fame , Ali had a dedicated following on the vaudeville circuit in the United States . He performed for heads of state including Tsar Nicholas II of Russia . Judy Garland named him her favorite vaudevillian and David Blaine identified Ali as his favorite magician . Portions of his act were captured in the short film Strange as It Seems ( 1930 ) and in Politiquerias ( 1931 ) , the Spanish @-@ language version of Laurel and Hardy 's Chickens Come Home . Two documentaries contain footage of Ali taken from Politiquerias : 1977 's Gizmo ! , and 1999 's Vaudeville . Ali 's unusual gastric abilities led to rumors that the Rockefeller Institute had offered a large sum of money to obtain his stomach post @-@ mortem . After he died in England , his body was offered to Johns Hopkins University for study , though the offer was declined . 

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 Gilbert 's influence on the English language has also been marked , with well @-@ known phrases such as " A policeman 's lot is not a happy one " , " short , sharp shock " , " What never ? Well , hardly ever ! " , and " let the punishment fit the crime " arising from his pen . In addition , biographies continue to be written about Gilbert 's life and career , and his work is not only performed , but frequently parodied , pastiched , quoted and imitated in comedy routines , film , television and other popular media . 
