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...editorial cartoonist for the New York Herald Tribune, Daniel B. Dowling, 47, is one of the best practitioners of the old-fashioned school of cartooning. Instead of blasting with broad, charcoal-black strokes like the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Dan Fitzpatrick or the Washington Post's "Herblock," Dowling gently spoofs with fine-line ink strokes and light caricature. A lifelong Republican. Cartoonist Dowling, who is syndicated in more than 100 papers, is guilty of one big heresy. "I really miss Harry Truman," says he. "When he was President, there was a three-ring circus in Washington." Dowling...
...political humor always keeps on top of the news, put his pen to work on the big political consideration of the week: President Eisenhower's need for Democratic support in Congress to push through his legislative program. But Dowling still has more fun with the opposition, e.g., his cartoon of Stevenson in a lifeboat after his recent speech on the "fears" that have spread in the U.S. since the Republicans took office...
...next half-hour he sang his own ditties. Most of his songs gnawed and worried at a popular cliché until it was as grotesque as a Charles Addams cartoon. I Wanna Go Back to Dixie touted the sordid side of the Old South; a Love Song listed the discouraging aspects of senility. For the late show, the Lehrer lyrics got more gory and clinical, with a few interpretive asides by the entertainer (e.g., "The reason most folk songs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people"). When he finished, the audience happily howled for more...
High among the nonfiction bestsellers were books of personal uplift and personal adventure, advice on golf, a couple of cartoon collections, Dr. Kinsey on the human female, and the life story of an unabashed bordello keeper who could probably tell Kinsey a thing or two, Polly Adler's A House Is Not a Home...
...Tattooed Sailor, on the other hand, is vintage humor. It is a hilarious one-man cartoon show by Rumanian-born André François who sounds an unmistakably original note in the cacophony of cartoon comedy. Cartoonist François humor is pointed, whimsical, completely loufoque and never unkind. His sailor hero has been tattooed into a state of ineffable euphoria, making him inseparable from his lovely Lilly and probably inadmissible to the U.S., but only on moral grounds...