I started a recent day in a flimsy gown on a table at Mercy Cardiology in Fort Smith. A tech who was maybe my son's age put warm slime on the instrument and rolled it over my heart. The objective was ...

Schulz drew "Peanuts" for 50 years — unaided — almost literally until the day of his death: His farewell strip, dated Sunday Feb. 13, 2000, ran just hours after his passing.