Our Better Nature: Great Pumpkins (saturdayeveningpost.com)
Linus, the precocious, blanket-toting character from the Peanuts franchise, waited faithfully for “The Great Pumpkin” each Halloween night from 1950 to 1999. If anyone else had been stood-up that many times by the same character, they’d have thrown in the towel (or blanket) for sure.