Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cartoonist for Lord Beaverbrook's Tory London Evening Standard, David Low was often called the world's best political cartoonist. Socialist Low throve on cartooning for a Tory paper, at times sharply caricatured both his boss, .the Beaver, and the Conservative government. Three years ago, Low moved his cartoons to a paper closer to his own political views. He switched from the Standard to the dull, doctrinaire Daily Herald, official organ of the Labor party. Instead of pepping up the Herald as he was supposed to do, the Herald-and the fact that Labor was in power-seemed...
...When Cartoonist Al Capp began introducing his readers to LIME-"the magazine with a flavor"-we asked Capp to tell us a little more about the new publication and how it got its name. In the words of the characters who populate his improbable county of Dogpatch (not to be confused with those who live in his even less probable country of Lower Slobbovia), he assured us: "It warn't no accident...
...subject of sports cars usually falls into two categories. There is the British school which catalogs some Veddy Famous Marques and adds historical data on them. Then there is the American or Goe Whiz school which stresses snappy phraseology instead of facts. "Sports Cars of the World" by cartoonist Ralph Stein parodies both schools unintentionally. The author arbitrarily lists 56 cars by nationality, describes each one in a few inadequate paragraphs, and throws in his off-hand yak-type comments...
...drier aspects of their research, Authors David Clayton and Punch Cartoonist David Langdon learned that some Spaniards call a hangover a clavo (nail), short for "a nail in the head." And one nail, they believe, drives out another...
Daniel G. Mulvihill, president of the University Employees Representative Union, and Al Capp, famed cartoonist, will help choose the College's favorite maid...