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While federal and state mediators worked feverishly to end the strike, only one Boston paper-the nationally distributed, nonunionized Christian Science Monitor-continued to publish. To fill the news gap, the Harvard Crimson put out an extra four-page edition called the Boston Crimson. Cartoonist Al Capp read his own comic strip Li'l Abner over television for what he called the "culturally depraved people of Boston." Out-of-work newsmen appeared nightly on television, where they did not distinguish themselves. Reading the news in unmodulated voices with pained expressions on their faces, they stumbled over words while nervously...
Died. Russell Westover, 79, cartoonist and onetime San Francisco Bulletin sports illustrator who in 1921 eyed the post-World War I rush of women into the working world and launched Tillie the Toiler, a chic, shapely but scatterbrained comic-strip steno who primly kept one up on the boss and the office boys until she was retired in 1959; of a heart attack; in San Rafael, Calif...
Died. Burris Jenkins Jr., 69, editorial cartoonist since 1931 for the New York Journal-American, a minister's son who liked to say that "cartoonists are just frustrated preachers," proved his point with such pieces as his 1957 sketch of Uncle Sam as Little Rock's "New Cop on the Beat" and other drawings aimed at foes from Klansmen to Castro; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...
...American frontier, but it has shed its inhibitions in full public view. Sex is no longer a taboo topic; it is, in fact, one of the commonest. Humor has not only been firmly entrenched in the bedroom, but is increasingly being brought into the bathroom. Even caustic Cartoonist Jules Feiffer says: "It's astounding what's allowable today." The gentle comedies that once titillated the town have been replaced by such farces as What's New Pussycat? and Kiss Me, Stupid, in which playboyesque exaggeration has been substituted for wit. Contemporary audiences are largely unshockable; to build...
Died. Victor Weisz, 52, Britain's acerb political cartoonist "Vicky," an aggressive socialist who over 25 years leveled his pen at everyone on his right from John Foster Dulles, whom he showed brandishing H-bombs, to Tory Harold Macmillan, whom he drew as the winged "Supermac," and Charles de Gaulle, whom he captioned with the famed inverted quotation, "Après le déluge-moil"; of as yet undetermined causes; in London...