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...campus monthly pointed with pride to famed alumni (but few of the famed alumni point with pride to their campus work). Princeton's Tiger boasts of names like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Booth Tarkington, Whitney Darrow Jr. The Yale Record printed Lucius Beebe, Stephen Vincent Benet and Peter Arno. Milton Caniff was art editor of the Ohio State Sundial. John P. Marquand, Gluyas Williams and the late Robert Benchley began on the Harvard Lampoon...
Died. Charles Despiau, 72, French sculptor, pupil of famed Auguste Rodin, sponsor during the Nazi occupation of Hitler's third-rate court sculptor Arno Breker; in Paris...
...Peter Arno's roughshod rides over the horsey set, the classic caricature never dared approach "Park Avenue" in naked triteness. Twenty years late, playwright George Kaufman and composer Arthur Schwartz are endeavoring to sell the public a brand of musical comedy that has long been by the way, and that must be hyper-professional to satisfy...
Editors like Gurney Williams consider Gardner Rea, veteran of 37 years in the business, and Virgil Partch, a comparative newcomer, two of the top artists in the country. (But Peter Arno gets top pay. When he bothers to turn out a cartoon the price is reputed to be $1,000.) Partch, no Wednesday go-to-market man, lives in North Hollywood, Calif., has never been east of New Mexico, tells editors he can make his characters just as gruesome in the West as he could in New York...
...Peter Arno, heavyweight cartoonist, denied a gossip-column report that he had been beaten up at a party by another guest (junior-size) of Horsewoman Elizabeth Altemus Whitney's in Warrenton, Va. Actually, said Arno, the little fellow just hit him in the back of the head with a rock. Knocked him cold. (Arno's friends told him about it.) Then somebody else beat up the rock-slinger...