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Clifford K. Berryman, Washington (D.C.) Evening Star cartoonist, for But Where Is The Boat Going? - a biting cartoon on the manpower-mobilization muddle...
Died. Rose O'Neill, 69, cartoonist creator of the "Kewpie Doll"; in Springfield, Mo. Exquisitely beautiful daughter of an Irish ne'er-do-well who later retired to a Missouri chasm, the onetime Omaha convent girl became a newspaper cartoonist at 13, in later years attempted serious painting and sculpture, never really learned linear perspective. She copyrighted her epicene homunculus in 1909, after first seeing its teardrop-headed form in a dream. Pirated the world over, the "Kewpie Doll" sold more than 5,000,000 copies, brought its twice-married parent more than...
...past master of the seven lively journalistic arts, Captain Joseph Patterson, publisher of the New York Daily News, last week gave a beautiful performance of buck-passing, ducking, bobbing and weaving. The cartoonist's pen was held by Clarence Daniel Batchelor, but the hand that guides the pen is Publisher Patterson's. On the day Batchelor drew the cartoon the Daily News: 1) covered the world's battlefronts in 90¾ column inches of type; 2) devoted 184¼ in. to six crime and sex stories. To the Daily News (circ. 2,000,000), Russia was worth...
Ernie Pyle, top G.I. war correspondent, called Sergeant Bill Mauldin the best cartoonist of the war. His drawings, thought Pyle, often went beyond comedy, were "terribly grim and real . . . about the men who are ... doing the dying." That was enough for smart George A. Carlin, boss of United Feature Syndicate. In a fortnight 22-year-old Sergeant Mauldin's unshaven, unsmiling infantryman "G.I. Joe" and his hard-faced pals will become syndicated newspaper characters. This week Carlin reported that 42 papers had signed...
...airborne operation was commanded by Colonel Philip G. Cochran of Erie, Pa., who won five medals as a fighter pilot in North Africa, even wider acclaim as the model for "Flip Corkin," Cartoonist Milton Caniff's hero of Terry and the Pirates. First glider pilot to land was handsome Flight Officer Jackie ("The Kid") Coogan, first husband of blond Pin-Up Girl Betty Grable (her second: Jive Bandsman Harry James). Said Flight Officer Coogan: "I sure feel confident riding with Indian troops as passengers." One of Cochran's transport pilots: Lieut. John ("Buddy") Lewis, lanky, hard-hitting third...