Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...destiny to rule the world will inevitably be destroyed . . . The Anglo-Saxons are in serious danger of taking just that step." Optimistically, Wallace added that he hoped "we may all soon meet in Moscow." At a $10-a-plate dinner, backed by a huge "antiwar" mural by Masses & Mainstream Cartoonist William Cropper, stout, bearded Charles Stewart, public-relations man for the Churchman, took up a collection. He raised close to $20,000 from the 1,900 diners, with the exhortation: "This meeting is only a beginning...
...Back Home," Mauldin's post-war sequel to his "Up Front," the cartoonist complained about pressure from advertisers on the editorial and news content of certain papers. Law Forum program arrangers don't think he has changed his mind...
...Capp, of Schmoo and L'il Abner fame, Bill Mauldin, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, Irving T. McDonald, WEEI news analyst, and William E. Mullins, politics editor of the Boston Herald will take the Forum platform at 8 p.m. to express their personal views on the matter of the almighty dollar's effect on the nation's press and radio...
Salvador Dali, appearing on a television show with Cartoonist Al Capp, insisted on drawing a special Dali window in every one of Capp's shmoos-"so that you can see the horizons beyond." Later, Salvador recalled a previous artistic collaboration. "I used to draw with Picasso," he boasted. "First I'd draw a line, then he'd draw a line...
...Capp, creator of the shmoo, got a double laurel. The National Laugh Foundation named him Cartoonist of the Year; the Yale Record gave him a scroll as 1948's ranking humorist...