Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...September air. He fell to daydreaming . . . on such a smoky afternoon, back home in Indiana, a boy might gaze at a cornfield studded with tattered golden shocks, and see them turn into Indian tepees. Idly he began to sketch. When the Tribune messenger arrived, he had finished his greatest cartoon. That was 39 years...
Since the end of gas rationing, Harvard pedestrians have protested their traditional role as fair game for Cambridge drivers. Once again the old cartoon of the staid Brahmin matron squatting for a running start across the Square touches sympathetic notes among the local sidewalk gentry. Professor William Yandell Elliott's prewar guess that no battle could be quite so dangerous as crossing Harvard Square during rush hour did not consider the possibilities of the Atom Bomb, but the analogy is still too close for comfort...
People Get Mad. His first cartoon for the P-D was an attack on wooden railroad coaches (it showed a coffin on rails). He has been wielding a blunt instrument ever since. As a result, he says: "An awful lot of people are goddam mad at me." In 1940 Fitz, his managing editor and the chief editorial writer were arrested in St. Louis because their savage pictorial attacks on civic lawlessness and injustice evoked the wrath of a judge...
...pays him $25,000 a year, but it does not ask him to support any policy with which he disagrees. An ardent Roosevelt follower, in 1936 he declined to draw cartoons for pro-Landon editorials. In the final weeks of the campaign, the only Fitz cartoons the P-D carried were innocuous drawings of elephants and donkeys competing. On occasion Fitz has also refused to draw to order for Collier's, for which he has worked on the side since 1925. He turned down one Collier's request-for a cartoon to illustrate an article by Willkie-solely...
Dumbo. Reissue of Disney's baby elephant cartoon (TIME...