Word: cartoonist
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...million, at no apparent loss in quality. University officials, however, insist that they will have to limit admissions next year to keep within the budget, which is still a matter of much controversy within the state. Reagan has been roundly denounced for his cost-trimming efforts-most notably by Cartoonist Bill Conrad of the Los Angeles Times (see cuts). Editorially, the Times has been cool to the Governor's tuition proposal, and to a budget cut that would affect university quality...
...take-off on her that she has demanded an apology and the immediate execution of the comic strip abomination. "Either out of ignorance or malice," she wailed, "he has made being for peace equal to being for Communism, the Viet Cong and narcotics." Just as captiously, the cartoonist growled that Joanie wasn't Joan. "She should remember that protest singers don't own protest. When she protests about others' rights to protest, she is killing the whole racket...
Deliberately building a slum for hillbillies might seem an odd way to fight poverty. Except in this case the squalid hollow will be called "Dogpatch," and the developers stand to make a pile. Cartoonist Al Capp, 57, agreed to let a group of Little Rock entrepreneurs use his Yokum hokum in the construction of a sort of yokel Disneyland on 800 acres in the Arkansas Ozarks around Marble Falls. "It will have log cabins and Sadie Hawkins Day races," Capp explained, "and things like family trout fishing, which is a hell of a lot of fun if you aren...
Died. Gardner Rea, 74, cartoonist and contributor to The New Yorker since its founding in 1925, esteemed both for his squiggly line drawings ("Nobody will catch on when I get senile," he once said) and for his sharp gag lines, which often formed the bases of cartoons by his colleagues Charles Addams and Helen Hokinson; of a heart attack; in Brookhaven...
...some deeply atavistic well of recognition, and they lavished their gratitude on him. Soldiers carried the cartoon-figure emblems of his creations on their uniforms and their war planes. Kings and dictators saw them as symbols of some mysterious quality of the American character. David Low, the great British cartoonist, called Disney "the most significant figure in graphic arts since Leonardo." Harvard and Yale gave him honorary degrees in the same year (1938); on his shelves were more than 900 citations, including an unprecedented 30 Academy Awards...