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Your story on Cartoonist Helen Hokinson [TiME, Nov. 14] brought vividly to mind our meeting in Connecticut several summers ago. My husband and I were vacationing in the East, and on the strength of having sold her four cartoon suggestions (one: "Now, please bear in mind that I am not Ingrid Bergman"-see cut), we asked her to meet us for cocktails . . . We found her to be shy, modest, thoroughly affable, and reminiscent of her women . . . When we asked her what she'd like to drink, she said: "A glass of iced tea. Hard liquor makes...
...Scripps-Howard-controlled United Press, put the question: What about the imprisonment of Angus Ward? Said the President: an outrage. Then the State Department sent an appeal to 30 nations in Ward's behalf. A few days later Ward was free (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In a final cartoon, Scripps-Howard assigned the credit to public opinion, the force it had done much to inform and arouse...
Number eight in his caravan of cartoon collections, Peter Arno's Sizzling Platter revives the gawking, girl-crazy old hell-raiser for a few sad appearances. He still lassoes his prey with diamond necklaces ("You certainly know my Achilles' heel, Mr. Benson"), buys yachts ("How many does it-er-sleep?"), invests in mink ("She got it by going 'brrrr' in front of Bergdorf's"). But what may be his final fling finds him corralled at last by a barbed-wire surtax: while his stern better half sits guard near by, the fat, fading Park Avenue...
Bangs & Sensible People. Born in Illinois about 50 years ago, Helen Hokinson studied art in Chicago, moved to Manhattan in 1920 and submitted her first cartoon (at a friend's insistence) to The New Yorker in 1925. In 1931, she started collaborating with James Reid Parker, 40, a New Yorker author, who suggested most of the situations, usually by mail, and wrote most of the captions...
...Hokinson girl was the club meeting, with Madam President on the rostrum (see cut), perhaps telling the girls: "The treasurer wants me to announce that unless some of the members pay their back dues, she will simply lose her mind." In Miss Hokinson's own favorite cartoon, her heroine was telephoning home from the police station with a contrite bulletin: "Albert, I did something wrong on the George Washington Bridge...