Word: cartooning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...candlelight. Water mains and pipes broke everywhere (since Britons stubbornly cling to the illusion that their winters are never very cold, water mains are not buried deep enough and many homes have rickety, poorly insulated "afterthought" plumbing, laid along outside walls). London's News Chronicle carried a cartoon depicting two Englishmen viewing an icicle-hung pipe above the caption: "If burst pipes were good enough for my dear father, they're good enough for me." Arab delegates conferring with Ernie Bevin on Palestine (see below) found it too cold even before the huge fireplaces of St. James...
...March 7, date of the next showing, a short history of the animated cartoon will be presented, including Walt Disney's first effort, "Steamboat Willie." The second feature is "Lives of a Bengal Lancer," with Gary Cooper...
Once Upon a Tune (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Something new and good, at least for small fry: a musically animated cartoon...
...North China is properly covered. Highbrows had once dismissed the comics as the poor man's literature; now to read at least one of them (usually Terry) was proof of being a regular fellow. (After all, hadn't Dickens begun Pickwick Papers as a text for a cartoon series?) Only the New York Times, among major U.S. dailies, refuses to run comics...
...Tribune's prize old political crosshatcher, John T. McCutcheon, was his ideal. Milt's, father took him west in 1916 and nine-year-old Milton worked for a short time as a child extra in two-reel movies. At twelve he created (for family circulation) his first cartoon, something known as Si Plug...