Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the death of the Los Angeles Times's Editorial Cartoonist Bruce Russell last month (of a heart attack at 60), Publisher Otis Chandler went hunting for a successor. Last week Chandler, who wants "the best of everything" for his paper and is prepared to pay the price, announced a considerable catch: the Denver Post's Paul Conrad, 39 (TIME, June 13, 1960), one of the best editorial cartoonists...
High-Speed Tour. Chicago Sun-Times Editorial Cartoonist Bill Mauldin asked permission to land his own plane on the ranch's landing strip. Permission granted. Scotty Reston of the New York Times called from Phoenix...
...could indeed. The President sent his own plane to intercept Reston and his wife in Dallas, and as a Johnsonian joke drafted Bill Mauldin as copilot. The President thoroughly relished the gag's payoff: Reston did not recognize Mauldin (TIME Cover, July 21, 1961*), and let the cartoonist carry his luggage...
...Horn Bull. A Uruguayan by birth, Frasconi worked as an illustrator and political cartoonist until he could get his "magic paper"-a scholarship to the Art Students League that brought him to the U.S. in 1945. Over the years after that, his clean-lined, brightly colored prints of California lettuce pickers and Fulton Market fish packers, plus his portraits of such literary figures as Bertolt Brecht and Sean O'Casey, won him a reputation as a wizard of the woodcut...
Died. Jimmy Hatlo, 65, cartoonist, who for nearly 30 years skewered the foibles of white-collar America in his syndicated Hearst feature, "They'll Do It Every Time"; of a heart attack; in Pebble Beach, Calif. In Hatlo's mildly cynical humor, people typically said one thing while doing another-such as the lush who tumbled off the wagon on Jan. 2. And their names were in character: J. Pluvius Bigdome, president of Bilgewater Beverage; Tremblechin, his office stooge; and little Iodine, Tremblechin's daughter, who proved so antiseptic that she earned a strip...