Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pulitzer Prizewinner Bill Mauldin, whose cartoons of grimy, unsmiling G.I.s were the war's best, chalked off two milestones in his postwar career last week. He got married, for the second time.* He also turned out a cartoon (see cut) that was in effect an announcement of a drastic change in his own political thinking...
...English rival of Punch once printed a cartoon of a man struck with amazement, and labeled it: "Portrait of a Gentleman Finding a Joke in Punch" Like some Englishmen, many Americans who have seen 105-year-old Punch are rarely amused by its jokes, even after laborious explanations. But last week, with its home circulation at an alltime high (184,000), London's most ancient & honorable humorous weekly confidently invaded the U.S. market, intending to be laughed at, not laughed...
...English country house than to London's Fleet Street. Once a week its four editors and six or seven regular contributors (led by Sir Alan Herbert) get together at the celebrated Punch Round Table, for luncheon, brandy and a discussion of the week's main political cartoon. Editor Knox, who has been working for Punch for 40 years and writes the pieces signed "EVOE," puts the rest of the issue out on faith. He holds no story conferences, never knows what contributions to expect until they arrive, and fills last-minute gaps by diving into the fat "unsolicited...
...much a part of England as fish, chips and the Royal Family. As in the days when Tennyson, Thackeray, George du Maurier, Sir John Tenniel and A. A. Milne were steady contributors, Punch believes in social satire and good clean fun. It rarely gets any sexier than the recent cartoon of a harassed mother rabbit snapping at a big-eared little rabbit: "Well, if you must know, you came out of a hat." Punch has usually avoided divorce, profanity, violence and prone drunks, always relished outrageous puns (Henry VIII, after a choppy Channel crossing: "Yesterday all was fair, a glorious...
...were only two people who could play a Mozart concerto-and he was one of them. Wild horses won't drag the other name from me. . . . The combination of my wife and myself is one that cannot be duplicated in 24 hours." Quipped the London Star, in a cartoon next day: "I have got tickets for Sir Thomas Beecham's next speech. I hear he will also conduct some music." Impresario Fielding resigned in a huff...