Word: cartoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Captioned "Little Roosevelt! ! !-The Grand Old Party Must Be Hard-Up!," the 1884 cartoon by Joseph Keppler shows Republican Bigwigs Frank Hiscock, Chauncey Depew, Horace Porter. Henry Cabot Lodge and Stephen B. Elkins gathered clockwise around Theodore Roosevelt and dressing him in the armor of party leadership...
...fact that the majority of the choices for the first installment of Cavalcade last week turned out to be foreign bothered Moore not at all. So, between the nasal cartoon witticisms of Bert and Harry Piel and the prizewinning Calo Cat & Dog Food commercial (TIME, Oct. 6), Californians were treated to a half-hour of sales pitches for products they may never get a chance to buy. A sampling...
...Queen Wilhelmina, 78, has devoutly considered Amsterdam's good, grey Algemeen Handelsblad a routine part of breakfast. But recently, Wilhelmina leafed through her favorite newspaper and was shocked, on the Dutch religious holiday known as White Thursday, to find Nikita Khrushchev depicted in successive panels of a political cartoon as an angel of peace and, in turn, a fanged monster. It was all supposed to demonstrate how Khrushchev has posed as both do-gooder and demon in waging his war of nerves over West Berlin. But it was too sacrilegious for Wilhelmina's taste. It became known last...
...everybody talks about the weather, and everybody tries to do something different about it. Television weather shows range from Milwaukee's Bill Carlsen squirting up a shaving-cream snowstorm to Manhattan's arch, smock-coated Tex Antoine drooping a cartoon mustache to pass the same word about rain. There have been politicians (Maryland's Senator John Marshall Butler once sponsored a nightly weather roundup as a campaign gimmick), puppets, and above all, dolls. As one of the largest sponsors of TV weather programs (36 on local stations in the East), the Atlantic Refining Co. has tried...
...supermarkets, with foam-rubber sofas, partitions to dampen noise, vending machines that serve drinks and food. To keep the kiddies busy-and teach them that the supermarket is the place to bring mom-supermarkets have blossomed with circuslike kiddy corners and amusements. Among last week's offerings: a cartoon theater, now used by 75 supermarkets, that seats up to 40 children, changes its 20-minute show every week...