Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most readers got a big ha-ha out of the cartoon in which the doctor tells the little man he seems to be allergic to himself. Now, it appears, the joke is no laughing matter. Many unfortunates actually are allergic to themselves: i.e., to the chemicals such as sex hormones, insulin, adrenalin produced by their own bodies...
Lieut. General George S. Patton insists on spit & polish. Soldier-Cartoonist Bill Mauldin pictures G.I.s as grimy and unshaven. Patton recently threatened to ban Stars & Stripes from his Army area unless Mauldin's well-plugged uglies tidied themselves up. Mauldin came back with a cartoon dig at the general. Navy Captain Harry Butcher, General Eisenhower's top aide, told the two to get together...
...June 1942 I was transferred to the newly organized staff of Yank, the Army weekly, and asked to do a cartoon feature similar to my Private Breger then appearing in the Saturday Evening Post. But, said the Yank authorities, the hero must have some other name than "Private Breger." After some thought, I decided on "G.I. Joe," the "G.I." because of its prevalence in Army talk . . . and the "Joe" for the alliterative effect. My cartoon hero's full name was "G.I. Joe Trooper...
...year book due in April or May, according to editors Moody and Worsley. It all depends on the staff, they say. The staff has a few brilliants in such men as Ches Baker, who is reported to have drawn up a reply to Mr. Lindsay's valentine cartoon. Speculation runs wild as to the nature of Mr. L's prewar profession. Jack Anspaugh claims it was a professorship of history but lately it has been hinted that he may have been M.C. or something of a Bob Hope or Jack Benny Calibre radio show...
Born. To Army Lieut. David Breger, 36, round-faced, snub-nosed model of his own much-victimized cartoon hero, "Private Breger," and Dorothy Lewis Breger, 24, his onetime art agent: their second child, second daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Lois Passin. Weight...