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London's News Chronicle also celebrated the Snail Watchers' anniversary-with a cartoon showing three human heads pondering the imperceptible progress of a snail. But none of them resembled Peter J. Henniker Heaton. One was unmistakably Molotov, one Byrnes, the other Bevin. The snail was labeled: Peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Compleat Conchophilist | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...morning last week the News ran its 264th Inviting the Undertaker. The cartoon combined two pet Patterson themes: safety, and hatred of the Roosevelts (it showed a tombstone, though no one had been seriously hurt when Eleanor Roosevelt dozed at the wheel and smashed into two cars-TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death at the Wheel | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

Russians tried hard to laugh about the shortcomings of their new Five-Year Plan and the purges that came in its wake. The humorous weekly, Crocodile, ran a cover cartoon of a man filling milk cans at a water pump. Each can bore the legend "100% fulfilled." The caption: "Chief milkmaid, or how Tovarish Figure-Chaser fulfills the plan." To make the picture still funnier, P. V. Smirnov, the head of Russia's meat and milk production, was promptly fired. But the comedy was still strictly official. For in Russia last week a full-fledged purge, affecting all departments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Crocodile Laughter | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

Bernard Baruch's friends handed him a 76th birthday present which everybody earnestly hoped would look just as jolly to the world a decade hence. It was a playful Derso-&-Kelen cartoon of Baruch and fellow delegates to the Atomic Energy Commission, all dressed up like Dumas' jolly musketeers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Homing Pigeons | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...million sunk in current productions. His average shorts, which cost $60,000 to $65,000 to produce and over $25,000 for prints, advertising and distribution, gross only $75,000 to $90,000 over a five-year period. Unless some drastic adjustments are made, Donald, along with his cartoon cousins, might soon be a stuffed Duck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stuffed Duck? | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

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