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...Memphis car salesman, a Ghanaian supreme court justice, a Japanese cartoonist-all are Kenya-bound for next week's opening of a potentially explosive international religious meeting. At Nairobi's* capacious Kenyatta Conference Centre, a band beating gazelle-hide drums and blowing on cow horns will greet 747 voting delegates and 1,600 observers and staff. And then the fifth septennial Assembly of the World Council of Churches will settle down to the issues that trouble the non-Catholic wing of the ecumenical movement...
...through five decades, they have never neglected their primary obligation: to nourish the comic spirit, to make the risible visible in times of war and economic distress and social chaos. As this warm, hilarious collection demonstrates, despite the changing boundaries of artistic license and comic liberty, The New Yorker cartoonist has always known exactly where to draw the line...
...Only a psychiatrist would know why I really did it," mused Photographic Cartoonist Alfred Gescheidt of his latest creation. After superimposing the face of Jackie Onassis on Mount Rushmore ("to show her place in history") and on the head of the Sphinx (because "that is the natural place for a woman"), Gescheidt has now fitted the former First Lady into the Mona Lisa. "The Mona Lisa is forever, and people are always interested in Jackie," said the artist. "She has the same inscrutable smile; it's dead perfect...
Ashland Oil Inc. Chairman Orin E. Atkins recently hung on his office wall a color portrait of Cartoonist Al Capp's renowned detective, Fearless Fosdick, Swiss-cheesed by bullet holes. Says Fosdick: "Fortunately, these are merely flesh wounds...
...shouldn't Brenda suffer like the rest of us?" mused Cartoonist Dale Messick, 69, after revealing that Brenda Starr, girl reporter and glamorous comic-strip heroine in 150 newspapers, was finally going to be married. Though she accepted the proposal of the ever-faithful Larry Nichols last week, Brenda will probably end up at the altar in November with the dashing Basil St. John, her boy friend of 35 years, revealed Creator Messick. "After all, Brenda has been everywhere and done everything, but she's still a virgin. In fact, she only got a belly button five...