Word: cartooning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thursday. Principal Herbert W. Smith of Chicago's Francis W. Parker School (375 children, all ages) pooh-poohed the Post Office, testified he had found such words as "whore" in Shakespeare, "sono-va-bitch" in the Chicago Tribune. He looked at an Esquire cartoon in which a harem beauty with a "Happy Birthday" tag on her ankle approaches two Yanks in the desert. Says one Yank to the other...
...American Scene was under ludicrous attack again last week. Cartoonist Whitney Darrow Jr., for ten years a comic ornament to The New Yorker, published his first collection of drawings, You're Sitting on my Eyelashes (Random House; $2.50). In the title cartoon a raucously artificial brunette addressed a startled gentleman who had just taken her seat at the movies...
...during the last Presidency of Arturo Alessandri, known as "The Lion," Topaze printed a cartoon showing a decrepit, mangy old lion being tamed by Alessandri's most despised political rival. Said Délano: "Who ever heard of referring to a President as a lion?" Alessandri, like Montero, became a laughingstock...
...assistants (Topaze now is put out by a staff of four writers, four cartoonists, who work one day a week, are highly paid), Délano was busy with a motion picture and had no time for publishing. He might have skipped an issue. Instead he whipped off a cartoon for the cover, printed half the inside pages solid black, left half blank, at the bottom of each printed the caption: "Hold up to the sunlight for five minutes and you will see figures of political significance." Half of Topaze's readers that week claimed to see something...
Most of Topaze's effectiveness is due to the wisecracky sayings of two simply drawn cartoon characters who appear in the magazine regularly and through whom Publisher Délano voices his own opinions. One is a bearded, elongated intellectual known as "Professor Topaze." The other is a shoeless, runty, ragged but usually grinning oaf called "Juan Verdejo." He represents Chile's lower classes, is so well known that all over Chile his name has come to be used much as "John Q. Public" is used...