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Scotsmen Don't Kick. Religion, politics and arson (dangerous subject) are taboo for the program's joke-making, but everything else, within the bounds of reasonable taste, goes. Hershfield, who is also a columnist (New York Daily Mirror) and cartoonist (Desperate Desmond), and Donald are grade-A dialect storytellers. This talent usually arouses protests from the nationality they have outraged. But Scotsmen never protest. During 1943 the favorite type of joke sent in by contestants has been that known as "moron." Sample: "Have you any children?" "Un happily, no." "That's too bad. I wanted...
...American Scene was under ludicrous attack again last week. Cartoonist Whitney Darrow Jr., for ten years a comic ornament to The New Yorker, published his first collection of drawings, You're Sitting on my Eyelashes (Random House; $2.50). In the title cartoon a raucously artificial brunette addressed a startled gentleman who had just taken her seat at the movies...
...invested $15 in a drawing course by mail-and since then almost everything he has done seems to have prepared him in one way or another for his present work as cover artist for TIME. He drew 25?-apiece caricatures to help pay his way through Colgate-was political cartoonist on two newspapers-for years was one of America's most sought-after magazine illustrators...
...this summer headed the Phillips Brooks House Service Relations Committee. It was while serving on this committee last winter that he received his most unique title. Appearing with five of his colleagues on a quiz program at an officer's party, Professor Chaffee was caricatured by a Boston Herald Cartoonist as "Leon, the Cruft Quiz Kid." The framed caricature now hangs proudly in Chaffee's outer office...
Americans often wonder what the British see in Punch. But one steady Punch contributor who easily hurdles all transatlantic barriers of humor is shy, blond, 35-year-old Rowland Emett. Emett is a daft satiric cartoonist in the English tradition of Max Beerbohm and Edward Lear. He is the producer of a fine series of affectionate burlesques of the British wartime scene. He is also, first & foremost, a comic master of an internationally favorite theme-the railway...