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...phone rang again. The caller was a friend of Peter's mother: Mrs. James Thurber, wife of the humorist-cartoonist. This time Peter was ready. He hauled the piano stool over to the bookcase, mounted the stool and said: "Come quick. Mummy's hurt...
Before the Russians opened their Finnish drive (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), British wags joked that the Second Front was calling for the first front. A London cartoonist portrayed a capitalist in striped trousers and tail coat, scrawling a sign on a factory wall. The sign: "Open a front in the East at once...
...pilot and the prototype of "Vince Casey" in Milton Caniff's famed action comic, Terry and the Pirates, but has not appeared in the strip since its scene shifted to Burma. Caniff got acquainted with Vincent through a fan letter written by Vincent's wife to the cartoonist. "I picked his brains," says Caniff...
...Indianian needed to be told that George Ade was one of the Hoosier greats: Riley, Booth Tarkington, the McCutcheons (Cartoonist John T. and Graustark's George Barr), Meredith Nicholson, Lew ("Ben Hur") Wallace. Indianians knew him too as Purdue's No. 1 alumnus, and "Sigma Chi's Modern Patron Saint." He had lived there 30 years as a Hoosier squire, though he wintered in Florida-he said the Midwest had no climate, "just an assortment of unexpected weather...
...While browsing through British Admiralty files for historical background on the self-propelled two-man torpedo, I came across this 1912 cartoon. Alsop's Ale (the hero's fuel) was Britain's favorite brew in 1912-as well known as Bass is today. The resemblance between Cartoonist Quick's conception and the real two-man article of today (TIME, May 1) is uncanny...