Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspapers to complain about Detective Dick Tracy's suspiciously high standard of living. Their question: Has the nation's favorite funny-page detective been a grafter all these years? The uproar was so loud that it reached the ears of Tracy's strip father, Cartoonist Chester Gould. He decided to have Pat Patton, the strip's police chief and Tracy's boss, call Tracy in last week for an explanation. Even from Dick Tracy, the nemesis of criminals for 20 years, it sounded thin. Said Detective Tracy: "I've had a steady job here...
...murder page"-into a stodgy collection of straight news. Says Waldrop: "We want to be a little bit stuffy." But as the paper began to look more & more like a carbon copy of the Tribune, staff morale ebbed. Many Times-Herald veterans quit, among them the sport editor, editorial cartoonist, picture editor, and night city editor...
Regarding your [Oct. 22] review of The New Yorker Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Album and the line, "Cartoonist Carl Rose's 'I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with...
While at Harvard, Stagg concentrated in foreign languages and literatures and took several anthropology courses under Hooton, who was just beginning his teaching career. Stagg was a cartoonist for the Lampoon when Robert Sherwood and John Marquand were writing for it. He helped Sherwood produce a Pudding show, but the cast disbanded when the United States entered World War I, and there was no Pudding musical...
...maidish "whoops" girls of the '20s ("I'm gonna show me profile, dearie!" "Profile? Whoops! I ain't even takin' me coat off"), close kin to the charwomen of London's Punch, to the ghoulish gaiety of Charles Addams. Many a New Yorkerism (e.g., Cartoonist Carl Rose's "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it") has become a part of the language. The Album proves that, when told right, there is no such thing as a stale joke...