Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some men would have been ready to throw in the sponge. Few U.S. Presidents have ever been jeered at the way Harry Truman was jeered at last week. New Dealing Columnist Samuel Grafton mocked: "Poor Mr. Truman . . . an object for pity." The New Dealing Chicago Sun ran a merciless cartoon in clay (see cut). The lowest blow came from that low-blow expert, the Chicago Tribune. Squinting at the President, the Tribune pretended to see Edgar Bergen's Mortimer Snerd. Sample dialogue...
...Germany was frankly perplexed. To the editors of Heute, a U.S.-sponsored, LIFE-like magazine, she wrote: "I don't see how this is possible. Won't you please print the answer to the puzzle?" What baffled her was a reprint of Charles Addams' New Yorker cartoon showing one set of ski tracks passing both sides of a tree (see cut). From Heute's literal-minded German readers came a flood of confident answers. Samples...
Hearst's King Features Syndicate last week paid $1,500 for the comic-strip rights to Duchess Hotspur, Rosamond Marshall's flashy, trashy, bedroomy bestseller about a flaunting, extravagant queen in 18th Century London. Purpose: to run it in November as a cartoon-&-text feature in the New York Mirror and other Hearst papers-now tapering off on their anti-dirty book campaign...
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...
...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...