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With just one paragraph, your fine cover story on Bill Mauldin dismisses the importance of the greatest American cartoonist since Nast...
...General Patton's remark to Reader Breger (who is himself a cartoonist, creator of the much put-upon "Private Breger") was an apt comparison, even if it was not a sound complaint. Dashing Captain Bruce Bairnsfather went to France in 1914 with Britain's Royal Warwickshire Regiment, saw his cartoons-featuring a character called "Old Bill"-become immensely popular with soldiers and civilians alike. For a Bairnsfather World War I classic, which could have served as a prototype for Mauldin's World War II Willie and Joe cartoons...
...belt - as in his figure of Charles de Gaulle sitting by the bed of a skeleton labeled "Colonialism" and observing cheerfully: "While there's life there's hope." A liberal by instinct, Mauldin refused to be hog-tied by the hampering allegiances that can destroy a cartoonist's punch. "I have lots of acquaintances and few friends," he says. Democrat Mauldin was all for John Kennedy during the campaign, but lost little time after the election in searching for cracks in the idol. He poked fun at the new host of Harvard men in Washington, showed Kennedy...
Outdistancing the Field. In a profession by no means overcrowded with talent, Editorial Cartoonist Bill Mauldin has outdistanced the field. There are a few strong pens still around, but not many...
...sewer. Herblock was slowed down by a 1959 heart attack, and later by his respect for John F. Kennedy. But the Herblock brickbats still land with thudding regularity-even if they rarely hit the Administration. England's David Low, whose brilliant wartime cartoons nominated him as the greatest cartoonist of the century, is far off form at 70. "The war," observed a Low friend recently, "stole the fire from his belly...