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...night in Dam Square to cheer denunciation of Russia. In Belgium, 5,000 university students stormed the Russian embassy in Brussels. Great Britain. Crowds marched in London streets wearing armbands of mourning. The Sadler's Wells Ballet Company called off its scheduled trip to Moscow. "Gabriel," chief political cartoonist of the London Daily Worker for 20 years, quit in disgust. The Oxford University Communist Club met and voted unanimously to dissolve. At a diplomatic party at Buckingham Palace, the Queen nodded stiffly to Soviet Ambassador Jacob Malik and moved on without a word, followed by an equally rigid...
With the exception of Dewey Short, few familiar faces will be missing from the next Congress. Republican Katharine St. George easily staved off the challenge of World War II Cartoonist William ("Willie and Joe") Mauldin in New York's 28th District, and Incumbent Frederic Coudert Jr. surmounted a dangerous bid by Democrat Anthony Akers, World War II PT-boat skipper. It was a bad year for basketball players too. In Kentucky, Wallace ("Wah Wah" Jones, one of the two "clean" players on the bribe-prone 1948-49 Kentucky basketball team, was smothered by Democratic Incumbent John Watts, and Minnesota...
...inspired many of the bitter attacks that have been made on him. Stumping the country in 1952 and 1954, he intensified the bitterness by hitting hard, by trading blow for blow with Harry Truman. (Among his most consistent, most effective antagonists: the Washington Post and Times Herald Pulitzer Prize Cartoonist Herbert Block-Herblock.") There has been little criticism of the job he has done as the most active and influential Vice President in U.S. history. Says an aide: "His whole life is now dedicated to being Vice President and a candidate for Vice President. There just isn't anything...
Divorced. Charles Samuel Addams, 44, necrographic cartoonist for The New Yorker; by slinky, lank-haired Lawyer Barbara Barb, 36, live ringer for Addams' lady lurker; after two years of marriage, no children; after Lawyer Barb established "residence" in a 45-minute divorce-mill hearing in Athens...
Died. Louis Raemaekers, 87, famed Dutch cartoonist whose savage World War I propaganda drawings for Amsterdam's De Telegraaf inflamed Allied emotions and endangered Holland's neutrality; in Scheveningen, The Netherlands. Bearded, mild-mannered Artist Raemaekers maintained his hatred of Germans through the years of uneasy peace, fled to the U.S. ahead of the Nazi invaders in 1940 to draw war cartoons briefly for New York City's tabloid PM. Half-German himself, Louis Raemaekers said in 1917: "It would be better ... if all the Germans could be wiped off the face of the earth...