Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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King of Hearts (by Jean Kerr & Eleanor Brooke) sends up a shower of witty sparks over a rather flat and meager landscape. A satiric farce, it concerns a megalomaniac cartoonist (Donald Cook) who regards his comic strips as profounder than the Wise Books of the East, and himself as a sort of Einstein with sex appeal. He is exhibited in varied but always-voluble relation to an assistant (Jackie Cooper), an interviewer, a syndicate chief (David Lewis), a small boy he adopts (Rex Thompson) and a fiancée (Cloris Leachman) whose romantic eyes are opened by, among other things...
Last year the staff cartoonist even depicted a group of Yale swimmers weighted down with medals and honors of various sorts, with the caption "I'll take mine off if you'll take yours...
...revise the collection or its handling. President necessities, however, point toward some sort of integration in the near future it the collection is to fulfill its pledge to be available "for scholarly research by sincerely interested persons."Roosevelt was a vain man, proud of his achievements. Here a cartoonist takes advantage of this trait, saying Roosevelt wants to put himself before Washington in the people's mind...
...Cartoonist Al Capp, creator of "Li'l Abner" and "Fearless Fosdick," heads the list of definite entertainment. Other performers will include Tom Lehrer '47, the Wellesley Widows, the Mahogany Hall All-Stars with Vic Dickinson, and three student acts...
...naturalized Author Gibbings, himself an outstanding designer of modern furniture: The trouble with most modern designers is that they are less concerned with the customer's comfort than with the esthetic theories of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. In Homes of the Brave, wittily abetted by Cartoonist Mary Petty, he provides a caustic analysis of modern styles...