Tuesday, April 06, 2004

Sticky situation: Joan Crosby Tibbetts' four-decade crusade ended yesterday when the Supreme Court refused to hear her lawsuit against the makers of Skippy peanut butter, claiming the name was stolen from her father's popular Depression-era comic strip. The Associated Press has the story. More on Tibbetts' father, Percy Crosby, and the Skippy comic strip can be found here.