Word: cartooning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nosed, chunky man who is cramming two successful careers into his nearly 35 years. As a cartoonist, he has a profitable contract with King Features Syndicate, Inc.; his drawings appear in some 50 U.S. and Canadian papers, and actually run frequently in the great Manchester Guardian, which prints the cartoon masterworks of Britain's famed political artist, David Low. As a soldier, Dave Breger started out a buck private in 1941, by last week had become a second lieutenant...
Classy Doodler. In 1937 Breger got $30 for a cartoon from the Saturday Evening Post. Almost immediately he retired from sausages to become a professional cartoonist. His free-lance products sold fairly regularly to such magazines as the Post, Collier's, Parade, This Week, Esquire, Click, The New Yorker. Career No. 1 seemed assured, when he was drafted...
...clumsy, meek, confused but undismayed. Cartoonist Breger likes to think of "Private Breger" as typical of all the nation's millions of little men, to whom soldiering is alien, but who cheerfully acquiesced when war came. Through Private Breger, Cartoonist Breger translates Army life into civilian terms. One cartoon showed a squad of soldiers being stopped by a game warden, who demanded to see their hunting licenses. Like all artists, Breger has small idiosyncrasies which trade-mark his drawings. He always draws officers with jutting jaws, privates with rounded chins...
Behind the drawing board a well-rounded technical sergeant lounged, sucking a cigar. He smiled slightly as the tall soldier approved of his tank-block cartoon, and went back to his work...
...Hood Rubber Co.'s series "How To Make Your Rubber Footwear Last Longer." Like many a British wartime advertisement, this one mixed humor with solid advice. A cartoon showed two armed guards toting a padlocked, ironbound chest into a house; the housewife was calling upstairs: "It's the men with your galoshes, dear...