Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arranging the 2,000 in order. Many of the estimated 40,000 he has drawn are scattered. Presidents from McKinley to Franklin Roosevelt, lesser statesmen, tycoons have befriended him, complimented him, collected his originals-which he gives away for the asking, never sells. Though never syndicated, his cartoons have been widely reprinted. Fellow craftsmen dedicated their cartoons to him on his 70th birthday. This year his cartoon "But Where Is the Boat Going?"-showing Congress, the President, McNutt, Hershey, Lewis, Green and Murray at sea in a "manpower" lifeboat, won the Pulitzer Prize...
Kentucky-born Cliff Berryman went to Washington when he was 17, as a protege of Kentucky's Senator Joe Blackburn who had admired his youthful talent. Earning his living as patent office messenger, he got his art education "for 20? a week" by copying the political cartoons in Puck and Judge. He sold his first cartoon to the Washington Post in 1889, got a regular job there two years later. In 1907 he switched to the Star, where his daily front-page cartoon remained a Washington landmark until...
Some weeks ago, when the Allies were still stalled in Normandy, air-force joke-smiths circulated a cartoon entitled "This Too?"-depicting a couple of Mosquito bombers towing tanks across a wheat field. A junior officer on Coningham's staff scrutinized the cartoon, grinned, said: "We'd better not show it to the chief. He'd want...
After the convention had run two days, the Chicago Tribune ran a front-page cartoon, in four colors, showing Sidney Hillman playing Cardinal Wolsey to Henry Wallace's Cromwell (with a tin can tied to his robes). Earlier, the Tribune had called Sidney Hillman a "kingmaker," and enthusiastically described how he and Senator Harry Truman breakfasted over croissants and cafe au lait in Hillman's room at the Ambassador East Hotel. (Actually, they both had orange juice, bacon & eggs, coffee...
...once told an admiring visitor. But three years ago, Hollywooder Partch found himself trying to support his wife and child on $18 weekly unemployment relief checks. He had taken part in a strike at the Walt Disney Studios. Eighteen-dollar boredom finally prompted Partch to send a batch of cartoons to Collier's Cartoon Editor Gurney Williams...