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...Washington, where the thermometer stood in the balmy upper 60s, the Times-Herald's Page One cartoon was a stopper. J. Q. Public was being smacked by a snowball labeled "early snowfall." Apparently, the paper's absentee owner, Colonel Robert R. McCormick, had decided that when Chicago has an early snow, Washington should observe...
...line was originated by E. B. White, and should properly be credited to him rather than to the undersigned. The. story of the origin of the cartoon (and its caption) is told in a volume modestly entitled One Dozen Roses (Random House), some rare first editions of which may, very likely, still be procured...
...Wooton's side, she moved slowly around the crowd, pausing occasionally to shake hands and chat. When she finished, both Washington's male correspondents and overdressed newshens were hers. The Washington Times-Herald (now owned by Chicago's Britain-hating Colonel Bertie McCormick) did run a cartoon which showed the Princess and her husband riding a broomstick, and which was captioned "Trick or Treat." Further more, it reported that the Princess forgot at one point to pull the shades before changing her dress at Blair House. Except for this sniping, she enjoyed a fine press...
G.I.s will have a chance to see the winners when the Army sends the show on a nationwide tour beginning at the Pentagon in January. They should get their biggest satisfaction out of the first-prize cartoon by Pfc. Robert Miller of Philadelphia. Miller's prizewinner: a series of pumpkin-simple caricatures of the Army face, from private to general, in which the privates clearly come off best. Says Artist Miller: "It expresses kind of the way I feel about the Army...
Producer Lantz, whose stable of Universal International cartoon characters includes Woody Woodpecker, Buzz Buzzard and Wally Walrus, keeps his feathered and furry folk as innocent and clean-living as a troop of Cub Scouts. Unlike Hollywood's human stars, the animals may not 1) drink hard liquor, 2) smoke, 3) be ghosts, 4) do bumps & grinds, 5) cavort in diaphanous costumes like the kind Betty Grable wears. Chamber pots, privies, cow milking-relics of earlier movie days-are gone forever. Although cartoon villains may belabor all and sundry, no blood may ever flow...