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Humor. Just as Americans know Superman and Mickey Mouse, Germans know Kohlenklau (Coal Pincher), a funny-looking but evil kobold. His creator, egg-bald Berlin Cartoonist Hans Landwehrmann, endowed him with a bushy walrus mustache, a saucy apache cap. The little robber carries a huge thief's sack, crams into it precious fuel and food wasted by careless Germans...
...newspaper cartoonist thought he knew just where the hat and the ring could be found...
...press had a field day lambasting a favorite whipping boy of the 1930s-the Supreme Court. To editorialists and cartoonists it seemed that strange things were happening in the marble palace where once sat the solemn Nine Old Men. Solemnly, the staid New York Times deplored "the unstable Court . . . with its recent astonishing record of dissents . . . confusion and uncertainty." Sardonic, pink-faced Cartoonist Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch took a slightly merrier view. He pictured the Justices as a bunch of middle-aged gamins, pinking one another's skulls with legal slingshots...
Horse Laughs. One of the liveliest books of the series is Usafi's English Grammar. Chief feature is a set of sparkling illustrations (see cut) by newspaper cartoonist Abner Dean. Before the reader gets to Chapter I he encounters a pretest for common errors that embodies horse laughs typical of the whole book...
Died. Will B. Johnstone, 62, political cartoonist, creator of the barrel-dressed, chinless, widely syndicated "Little Taxpayer"; after long illness; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Old World-man Johnstone was taken over by the World-Telegram in 1931, first sent his "taxpayer" into the lists as an auxiliary in Mayor LaGuardia's successful 1933 campaign against Tammany...