Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York newsman. Among the contributors: Author Louis Adamic, Dr. Guy Emery Shipler, editor of the Churchman; Roger (American Past) Butterfield, Sportwriter John Lardner and his screenwriter brother Ring Jr. (one of Hollywood's "unfriendly ten"); Max Werner, Anna Louise Strong, untiring apologist for Russia, and ex-New Masses Cartoonist William Gropper...
Born. To William Henry ("Bill") Maul din, 26, baby-faced Pulitzer Prize cartoonist, creator of grimy G.I.s Willie and Joe, and second wife Natalie Evans Mauldin, 24: a son; in Manhattan. Name: Andrew Edgar. Weight...
What the show did prove was that a cartoonist's best strips are apt to look much like his worst. Not one panel had the uniqueness that marks a "great" illustrator-a George Cruikshank or Gustave Doré. But in their own ways a handful of the strippers were mighty good...
...patient readers of the Chicago Tribune thought Colonel Bertie McCormick was off on another simplified spelling jag. But the Page One story was simply a new way of reporting that old story, a new telephone directory. Reporter John T. McCutcheon Jr., son of the Trib's revered, retired cartoonist, had taken every word from names in the phone book...
Perelman was just leaving a little specialty shop in the Forties (he had been buying "a black girdle with rose panels and a bias-cup brassière" for his mother) when he ran slap into Cartoonist Al Hirschfeld-a man whose "cunning ferret eyes" share pride of place with a beard as frothy as "a zabaglione." The pair of them were eventually put under contract to make a trip round the world for Holiday magazine, and the result, excellently illustrated by Artist Hirschfeld, is one of the funniest books that Perelman has written. Subtitled "Around the World...