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...most tellin« comment on any editorial page is often contained in a brief line that emphasizes a chin, droops an eyelid or curves a mouth. Under the pen of a skilled cartoonist, a man's face can become a political comment, and Barry Goldwater has a face that most cartoonists find a delight to limn...
...hard to go wrong on that face," says the Baltimore Evening Sun's Cartoonist Tom Flannery. "It has the look of one of those things on Mount Rushmore." Adds the Washington Star's John Berryman, who has been sketching Presidents since Calvin Coolidge: "Goldwater is perfect to draw. The glasses, of course, are his trademark, but he also has strong facial characteristics - a flat mouth, pearl-grey hair, a strong jaw and high cheekbones." Berryman, who tries "not to be vicious toward candidates," has so far produced the best Goldwater likeness...
Caveman Drawing. What a cartoonist draws is inevitably colored by what he feels, and the feelings of many a cartoonist are even plainer to detect than those of their like-minded colleagues at typewriters in the newsroom. The Washington Post's Herblock draws Goldwater with a snarling lip, but says: "I think he's so bad all you have to do is to picture him as he is." Paul Conrad of the Los Angeles Times also claims, "I don't put in any more than I see." What he sees is a jutting jaw and a vacant...
...also best in coming up with offbeat sidebars, finding good material in unobvious quarters. Cartoonist Bill Mauldin, for example, put in some fine moments on CBS sketching the faces of Goldwater and Scranton, making comments on the characters of each as he felt them coming up through his pencil. He showed how Goldwater's glasses make him look better, whereas glasses on Scranton "kill him dead, make him look like an English teacher." CBS also scored what amounted to a news beat when Cronkite was the first to get Governor Scranton to say that he had not read...
East Potomac is a neighborhood golf course that Washington Post Cartoonist Herblock, 54, likes to waffle around on. Westerner Stewart Udall, 44, thinks of conservation in terms of wide open spaces, not a metropolitan nine holes. The twain finally met, however, after the Interior Secretary okayed plans to build a parking lot and aquarium on the course, bringing an anguished letter from his friend Herb challenging Stew to a friendly round, "because I want him to see the course from a player's viewpoint." Udall shot a 46 to Herblock's 51, but the loser scored a tactical...