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...audience: "Hi, I'm an actress .... We've never done this before and we need your help." In the fourth Proposition program she continues, "I want you to tell me something you don't like to do." The audience shouts "work" and the Proposition improvises skits about a bum who never works, the aching back of a Russian who shovels snow all day, and finally they celebrate the liberation from all work with an Irish jig. Food suggestions provoke songs about spaghetti, "just pouring out" and steaks "on burning black eyes." While one member of the group sings the others...
...Paul A. Walters, Jr., a UHS psychiatrist, trained the Medical students to cope with persons on bum trips, by "talking them down" and finding friends to stay with them...
...carnival worker, Army drill sergeant, and newspaper advertising manager and publisher. Then, one arm went dead. There was nothing physically wrong with it, as Mike learned from his doctors. "I was afraid I couldn't stand the pressure, and I didn't want to look like a bum, so I just got myself sick with the arm." To cure his arm-and his psyche -Mike worked out in a gym. From there, he moved to his academy and other people's psyches...
Naturally, the Bum became Mullin's favorite caricature, but his team loyalty lay with the Giants. The New York Giants of the '30s were a team of home-run hitters who preferred powering the ball out of the park to stealing bases. Mullin drew his Giant with huge feet and a pea-sized head, explaining that his intent was "to emphasize that they were slow-footed rather than slow-headed." Those latter-day miracle makers, the New York Mets, also appealed to Mullin, who portrayed their rush to the 1969 National League pennant on TIME'S cover...
...years, Mullin has been doing advertising cartooning for an insurance company, Mutual of New York. He will do a few more this year, "which will buy liquor for the year." He hopes to intersperse Florida living with a little world traveling. That, of course, takes money, but presumably the Bum has already paid the bills...