Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THINK I draw him as a monument, a statue which walks and speaks, something mythical and historical." So says the cartoonist who drew this week's cover of France's President Charles de Gaulle-43-year-old Louis Mitelberg, who calls himself "TIM" simply because an editor once put that name on a cartoon he had neglected to sign. He is France's leading political cartoonist...
...Will Rogers and Darryl Zanuck played polo nearby, stopped so often at the hotel bar that it was and is still called the Polo Lounge. There were off-screen sporting events: Tom Mix once was sent to the carpet in a flying tackle by an autograph hound; Cartoonist George McManus unscrewed a button marked "Press" from a men's room urinal, affixed it to his lapel and crashed a swank party as a newspaperman. But of more lasting interest was the hotel's impeccable service, a concept originally executed by, and credited to. the Beverly Hills...
...least, the government had fallen, evoking evil memories of the chaotic Fourth Republic. Yet the relentless logic of Charles de Gaulle suggested that he will win his presidential referendum (TIME. Sept. 21 ), and that, one way or another, he will probably survive the subsequent parliamentary elections. A French cartoonist caught the idea when he switched a famed line and had De Gaulle say: "After the deluge...
...nutritionally complete 225-calorie meal. The soups will sell for about 39? each or $1.17 for a three-pack. > The two-way wrist radio (invented 15 years ago by "Brilliant" and "Diet Smith") has saved Dick Tracy from many a nasty comic-strip scrape. Cartoonist Chester Gould now plans to move the contraption off the drawing board and onto the wrists of Tracy fans everywhere. The radio comes in two pieces-a 9-volt power pack with aerial that hooks onto the wearer's belt, and a receiver-microphone for the wrist-and permits its owner to send messages...
Died. Edmund Duffy, 63, sharp-witted editorial cartoonist, mostly for the Baltimore Sun (1924-48) and the Saturday Evening Post (1949-57), whose portfolio of some 8.000 drawings included three that won him Pulitzer prizes (1931, '34, '40); after a long illness; in Manhattan. Duffy insisted that the "best cartoons are against something," caricatured the Ku Klux Klan, Hitler and Communism with such blunt and angry lines that one critic wrote, "If the pen is mightier than the sword, then Duffy's grease pencil is more effective than a well-aimed brick...