Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...private terrors of his characters. Dry and courteous, only child of a high school mathematics teacher in Shillington, Pa., he brings to mind Picasso's picture Boy Leading a Horse and bears a pleasant resemblance to the lad. As a boy. Updike wanted to be a cartoonist for Disney or The New Yorker, and after Harvard he studied drawing at Oxford. He no longer draws or paints but is acute enough to know that his writing "is excessively pictorial." He began sending work to The New Yorker at 15, but it was not. until seven years later that...
...Editorial Page Editor Mort Stern's desk one day last week, Stern opened it to the editorial page. After one horrified look, he sped a Stern command to the composing room. Two hours later, when the Post's second edition hit the streets, the work of Editorial Cartoonist Paul Conrad was gone...
What stirred Stern's wrath was a particularly unflattering portrait of President Dwight D. Eisenhower (see cut). The "independent" Post has learned to expect less than charity for Ike from its Democratic cartoonist, who habitually draws the President to look as if he does not have all his marbles...
...Beyond the limits of good taste," said Editor Stern, substituting a syndicated cartoon by Bill Mauldin for the absent Conrad. "It was cruel," agreed Post Publisher Palmer Hoyt. Said chastened Cartoonist Conrad: "If the management wants to drop a cartoon or, substitute another one, that is its prerogative...
...Messenbaugh in the third period to win the game. His fine punting--a 33-yarder that rolled dead on the Dartmouth three, and two 52-yard efforts--held the Indians at bay all afternoon. Perhaps all Maclntyre really needed was to get mad sooner; as Vic Johnson, Boston Herald cartoonist, observed, "The moral of the story is: Never rouse the ire of a MacIntyre...