Word: cartoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the constitution was promulgated, after 26 months of doctrinaire hairsplitting, it was a victory for Auriol's compromise policy. (A popular cartoon had showed him yelling into a telephone: "Thirty-seven Chambers and six Presidents, that's my final offer!") But the victory was only tactical. With a few minor changes, the same abuses which Auriol had attacked in his book would be possible under the Fourth Republic. On Jan. 16, 1947, Vincent Auriol was elected President of the Republic; since then his job has been, as he once wrote, to "regularize political disorder...
...appearance there could scarcely have been more surprising last week than the performance of his distant cousin, a politically conscious Hollywood owl. The owl, Dr. Owsley Hoot, brainchild of a onetime Disney employee named John Sutherland, is the chief character in Fresh Laid Plans, a nine-minute animated cartoon independently produced by Sutherland and distributed throughout the nation by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...sided political editorial . . . a clever attempt to use the movies to sway public opinion ... [it is] making history in the field of farm politics." Does it mean, he went on to ask, that the movie industry "is going to bat to knock the Government out of agriculture?" "The cartoon," said Satirist Sutherland, "was not aimed specifically at the . . . Brannan Plan, but if the shoe fits, they can wear...
...little red door to 14 Plympton Street swings wide at 7:30 tonight as the CRIMSON's 1951 cartoon competition opens officially. Staff cartoonist Elliot L. Hoffman '51, and caricaturist Steven O. Saxe '51 will be on hand to greet, advise, and pass the beer to all prospective candidates. While cartoonists are urged to bring samples of their work, even the empty-handed will be welcome...
Cartoonist Vicky last week recalled Shakespeare's description in King Henry V of the night before the battle of Agincourt, as Frenchmen stood around camp fires discussing the prowess that their English foes drew from a beef diet (see cartoon). Vicky did not think it necessary to remind Britons of the Duke of Orleans' comment: "Ay, but these English are shrewdly* out of beef...