Word: cartooning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poon, Harvard's funny magazine is getting funnier and funnier, for its cartoon of the month showed the Ibis, 'Poonsters' idol, being shot out of the sky by one of the magazine's many hot shots...
Died. Dr. James M. Doran, 57, onetime U.S. Commissioner of Prohibition (1927-30); in Washington. Thin, bespectacled, with puckish ears, he faintly resembled the cartoon personifications of Prohibition. His wife, Roxana, a W.C.T.U. member, attracted attention in 1930 with a recipe book of "Prohibition Punches," whose contributors numbered the wives of many high Washingtonians. One of Mrs. Doran's offerings was a mint julep without liquor. With the end of Prohibition, Doran became head of the Distilled Spirits Institute, resigned...
...Pravda printed a bitter cartoon entitled "Atlantic Coast," showing a dummy German with a gramophone attached to it, shouting: "Our fortifications are impregnable...
That day, in the page-one space usually occupied by its cartoon, the Tribune displayed under the caption "The Citadel" a picture of Tribune Tower with the U.S. flag waving above...
Bambi (Disney; RKO-Radio) may not be "the best picture I have ever made, and the best ever to come out of Hollywood" (as Walt Disney claims, but it is in many respects the best of his six full-length cartoon movies. The chief hurdle it has to take is the high standard of its predecessors...