Spoiler : Gray, Harold (Harold Lincoln Gray) Born in Kankakee, Illinois 1/20/1894; died 5/9/1968 in La Jolla, California. Married to Doris Platt (?-1925 her death), Winifred Frost (?-?). Cub reporter at the Chicago Tribune, then spent five years assisting Sidney Smith at the Chicago Tribune on The Gumps comic-strip. Gray submitted ten sample comic strips to the New York News using a little orphan "boy" as the main character. The New York News publisher suggested putting skirts on him, thus creating Little Orphan Annie that was published in the New York News and other news- papers from 1924 until 1979, then as Annie (1979-). Little Orphan Annie was adapted to radio on WGN-Chicago in 1930, then NBC-BLUE (1931-1936); NBC (1936- 1940); Mutual (1940-1942).