Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tens of thousands of words that were filed by the correspondents, a 227-page convention report was organized into book form and transmitted to New York for Cover Writer Larry Barrett and the rest of the Nation staff to coordinate with their own notes. For illustration, British Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe flew from London, and Australian Cartoonist Pat Oliphant took time off from his job with the Denver Post to record their impressions of the convention for TIME...
...Dean Rusk? Robert McNamara? Defense Secretary Clark Clifford? A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany? They are all in Who's Who. So is Composer Leroy Anderson (The Syncopated Clock) who was, to be sure, a U.S. military intelligence captain in World War II and Korea. So are Pulitzer Prizewinning Cartoonist Bruce Shanks of the Buffalo Evening News and Phil Santora of the New York Daily News, not to mention Newsday Publisher Bill Moyers, L.B.J.'s former press secretary. On the list too are Arthur Schlesinger and HEW ex-Secretary John Gardner, Viet Nam Negotiator Cyrus Vance and Presidential Aide...
From 1953 to 1956 the lbis had no such hair-raising ordeals but was periodically stolen by a Crimson cartoonist, David Royce, known to his contemporaries as "the human fly.' Later it was also presented to Caroline Kennedy whose family seemed to understand the nature of the gift more readily than had the Russian delegates on Park Avenue...
...first time in the history of Pulitzer prizes, a single publisher, John S. Knight, 73, carried off three of them last week. His Detroit Free Press won top prize for local general reporting, the Charlotte Observer's Eugene Gray Payne was named best cartoonist, and Knight himself was cited for editorial writing. It was a day of rare honors for a publisher who has not gone out of his way to seek them...
...craft. For that reason, he is genuinely sorry that a politician of such caricaturable assets as L.B.J. is leaving the scene. "Politics aside," he says, "losing Johnson is like losing Khrushchev." That still leaves Hubert Humphrey, of course. Because of the raw material he supplies a cartoonist, Oliphant would like to see him elected President: "It would give me four good years of fun." His last choice for President: Eugene McCarthy, whose patrician, well-chiseled face lacks a single exaggerated feature to exploit. "I'd rather draw him with a blank face," says Oliphant. "I'd hate four...