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Died. Lady Beerbohm (Elisabeth Jung-mann), 61, widow, second wife and former secretary of British Caricaturist-Satirist-Drama Critic Sir Max Beerbohm, who married her in 1956, a month before he died at 83; of a heart ailment; in Zoagli, Italy...
...remind your clever caricaturist that the old lady in the funny hat who is a member of the Anti-Vivisectionist Society, or any other protesting minority group, historically gives as valid and essential a contribution to Americanism as the research workers who have developed Salk vaccine...
Died. Miguel Covarrubias, 53, energetic, popular Mexican caricaturist of the '20s and '30s (for Vanity Fair, The New Yorker), painter, anthropologist and art historian (Island of Bali, The Eagle, the Jaguar and the Serpent); of septicemia; in Mexico City...
Setting aside his drawing tools for a moment, Britain's best-known cartoonist, aging (65) David Low, writing for the New York Times Magazine, deplored, from a caricaturist's viewpoint, the post-Stalin decline of "the cult of personality." Lamented Low: "There has been a steady decline in striking personality as compared with pre-war yesterday, with its Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Gandhi, Churchill, Roosevelt and company . . . Eisenhower offers opportunities, certainly, with his curiously shaped skull and short, wide face, but nobody could say he was a cartoonist's delight . . . Things are even worse with the British...
Died. Sir Max Beerbohm, 83, dumpling-shaped British wit, drama critic (The Saturday Review), caricaturist and satirist (Zuleika Dobson), last of the Victorian elegants; in Rapallo, Italy. One of literature's most modest, sparing and delicate talents, "the incomparable Max," as Shaw called him, belonged to an age of posturing geniuses and aesthetes (Burne-Jones, the Rossettis, Swinburne, Whistler, Oscar Wilde), was one of them but not one with them. With a few deft strokes of his caricaturist's drawing pen, he could put the lucubrations of a giant into gnat's perspective and keep the world...