Word: cartooning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like the boy in British Cartoonist Henry Bateman's cartoon, who went to prison for breathing hard on a glass case in the British Museum and returned, a decrepit old man, to breathe his defiant, dying breath on the same forbidden glass, John Seed did not give up his high resolve. Last fortnight he returned to college, strapped in a plaster cast from waist to shoulders. He spurned the university's offer to end the contest by giving him a clapper...
...outside journalistic community were entirely familiar with the habit of having candidates for the Crimson scout about at this season of the year for anything that would make a story, they might have treated the article in question in the light that was suggested by the cartoon and its presumably funny caption. However, the assumption seems to have been made that the article was seriously intended and, as such, it surely should have had some basis other than totally unfounded and perhaps joking rumer...
...whole affair would give me no concern if it affected no one other than the but of your cartoon and the subject of the article itself. The faculty is, no doubt, fair game for the Crimson, and I am sure your whole story was intended to be very amiable and flattering to me. You must realize, however, that the repercussions in the outside press from such a story might seriously embarrass one who holds a very important public office. My own views are so extreme that they are incompatible with political responsibility to an electorate that certainly holds quite different...
...such proposals." As President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull joined the chorus of deniers in Washington, foreign opinion on the Welles mission changed: like hosts speaking their mind after the guest left, editorial writers sneered at the unreality and ambiguity of the mission. Punch printed an old-fashioned cartoon showing Mr. Welles dealing in magic and spells (see cut). A hard-bitten British officer, holding up the Conte di Savoia for 13 hours while Sumner Welles sat in his cabin writing his report, took one last occasion to remind the U. S. of Britain's position: "This...
...this month CBS began a series called Americans at Work, examining and dramatizing a likely selection of the 31,000 U. S. occupations. To date, Americans at Work (Tuesdays, 10:15 to 10:45 p.m. E. S. T.) has kibitzed sandhogs, dynamiters, firemen, cops, cranberry growers, submariners, teachers, cartoon animators, the U. S. Marines, the Coast Guard ice patrol, test pilots, census takers, even game wardens...