Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Target for the Week. In a week of Red tantrums after the verdict, Judge Medina became the target for every type of Communist attack and abuse. Paul Robeson vowed that he would get Medina impeached. The Soviet newspaper Pravda carried a cartoon of Uncle Sam swinging a bludgeon labeled "Medina...
After dark, while monks and nuns bustled through last-minute preparations, the Indians trooped into the mission plaza for a special movie program. Wrapped in striped blankets or sheepskin coats against the cold night air, they chuckled at a cartoon and slapstick comedy, tensely followed a hard-riding western. Next morning they were up before dawn over their breakfast campfires, but it was 10 o'clock before the celebration began...