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Among Manhattan's magazine cartoon editors, Wednesday is gag day. How it began, nobody remembers for sure. Every Wednesday morning, a dogged little army of free-lance cartoonists trudges the rounds of magazine offices in midtown Manhattan to hawk their wares. They are the funnymen who draw the little back-of-the-book panels that have put millions of readers into the habit of leafing through the ad pages. Grateful advertising men call them "stoppers...
...peddling process has become as ritualized as transactions in a Bagdad bazaar. The artist 1) mopes in a waiting room, 2) is waved in to see the cartoon editor, 3) unzips his briefcase, 4) hands over a batch of rough sketches. Small talk is permitted, but he never cries "This'll kill you!" The editor riffles through the roughs, seldom grins, hands most of the sketches back, holds out a few on approval. At lunchtime many of the artists get together at either of two Manhattan restaurants-Pen & Pencil or Danny's Hideaway-to talk over their troubles...
...Andrews Sisters' rendition of "Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet" would have tasted better with less sugar. The sequence featuring the Goodman sextet is a bit of surrealism that seems to have no place in the realm of motion pictures, though it comes out better in an animated cartoon than when dragged into a regular movie as a dream sequence. "Roll Along, Blue Bayon," which stars two cranes cavorting in the heart of Senator Claghorn's country, is probably the dullest thing ever to come out of the Disney studios...
Nelson's Hat. The Thing had grown a little less awful as a result of Bikini; its apparently infinite power was finite after all. Le Canard Enchaîné ran a cartoon of a fashionable woman refusing a rendezvous the day before the test: "I really can't tomorrow. I have the end of the world. How about the day after?" Cried Communist Humanité: "The bomb lost some of its prestige. . . . They will no longer be able to play so easily with the nerves and imaginations of people. . . ." Said a disappointed London clerk: "I rather imagined...
Nuts. In Des Moines, prankish burglars robbed the Hawkeye Nut Co. of $125, mailed the proprietor a cartoon which showed squirrels carrying nuts out of a basement window while a watching policeman telephoned: "Sarge, I've just solved that nut shop robbery...