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...knock him cold with a caption bold...
...other bed: "What the hell ever happened to the old-fashioned love story?" Again, five assorted Thurber dogs group themselves on a grassy bank to watch a family of human beings pass: "There go the most intelligent of all animals." One of Thurber's masterpieces carries no caption at all. A simple drawing which out-surrealizes a whole school of artists, it shows a lone, wan male cowering before a house whose whole three-storied back has somehow melted into the head of the waiting woman. The book also reproduces Thurber's famous 17 drawings illustrating...
...letter . . . from C. H. Armstrong, of Wichita, Kans., which you published in your Oct. 4 issue under the caption "Contented Cats" has attracted widespread and favorable comment in this community.* A friend has ordered our job printer to reproduce it (5,000 copies) and proposes to have it distributed from house to house...
...last fortnight's issue went too far for Pentagon Building kibitzers. One cartoon showed a two-star general, breakfasting in bed. Another, in which an emaciated corporal pointed at a well-fed Army cook, had the caption: "He still insists he doesn't use saltpeter." The editorial gently poked a particularly sensitive sacred cow, the American Legion (". . . Men . . . joined the Legion to apply pressure to get things done politically...
...highly paid), Délano was busy with a motion picture and had no time for publishing. He might have skipped an issue. Instead he whipped off a cartoon for the cover, printed half the inside pages solid black, left half blank, at the bottom of each printed the caption: "Hold up to the sunlight for five minutes and you will see figures of political significance." Half of Topaze's readers that week claimed to see something. The rest held Topaze to the sun until their arms ached...