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...Yorker cartoon of some months ago pictured a perpendicular mountain peak, with two puffing, heavily loaded climbers just reaching the top. Standing at the summit was a third gentleman, dressed in business suit and Alpine hat. He was shouting excitedly into a walkie-talkie...
Besides being funny, this cartoon accurately illustrates two important points. In the first place, there were two men; in the second place, somebody had got there ahead of them...
...instance, what more can be said about U. S. Diplomacy" and the "Palestine Issue" as of April, 1948, than the accompanying cartoon says? A treatise on how important oil is to America and to the whole free world would miss the hypocrisy of our stand. Documented proof that we were really interested in the people directly affected would disguise the fact that, no matter how we felt about that, oil was more important. And what simple denunciation of our policy would have the force of this cartoon? from The Herblock Book, Beacon Press...
...quickly made amends to the Post with a special Hatlo cartoon (a Post editor tearing his hair and screaming "Kill the Hatlo cartoon!! No, better still, kill Hatlo!") and Ratio's "abject apologies to every dog ... in Denver." Said his apology: "This sort of thing is always happening to me. If I draw a cold-weather cartoon showing my characters shivering in their red underwear . . . the temperature will rise to about 102°F. the day it appears...
Once a year Hatlo leaves his Pebble Beach, Calif, home to travel around the U.S. for three months searching out the amiable "snobs, cheats, phonies and bores" that populate his cartoons. "Drawing the cartoon is just a matter of looking around," says he, "and putting down the things that annoy...