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...years ago in Wisconsin a hard-working cartoonist named Carl Anderson sweated over an idea for a drawing he hoped to sell the Saturday Evening Post. Slowly, painfully the idea took form as a swaybacked, pot-bellied horse and two small boys. One boy was bald as a buzzard. The other boy lifted him up until his naked pate pressed against the horse's sagging belly. Asked the second boy, "Does your head feel warmer now, Henry...
...Clifton Webb holding the arm of Serge Lifar; Polo Player Laddie Sanford on a raft with his wife. Actress Mary Duncan; Mrs. Willie K. Vanderbilt honoring LaFayette; Douglas Fairbanks on a nightclub couch; Lawrence Tibbett in a theatre lobby; Doris Duke drinking champagne; Prince Chlodwig Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst drinking champagne; Cartoonist Tony Sarg drinking whiskey; Max Baer putting cold cream on his face; Cinemactress Dolores Del Rio going upstairs; Mrs. William T. Wetmore going downstairs...
Died. Charles Raymond Macauley, 63, newspaper cartoonist; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 40 years of cartooning for many a newspaper including the New York World and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Macauley popularized Theodore Roosevelt's "Big Stick," won a $500 Pulitzer Prize (1929) for "Paying For a Dead Horse"-a drawing of a dead horse, a rider staggering under a burden labeled "Reparations...
TIME accepts as first-rate humor, not without advertising value, the Boston Herald's jibe by able Cartoonist Francis Wellington Dahl. Taking as his text the recent advertisement for TIME Inc.'s new fortnightly, LETTERS, "a publication . . . written by its readers," Cartoonist Dahl shows an earnest little man writing copy, drawing illustrations, setting type, tending press, delivering LETTERS to a house (presumably his own), finally receiving a notice: "Dear Sir-Your subscription has expired-Please send two dollars." But Cartoonist Dahl erred. The yearly subscription for LETTERS, beginning with the Oct. 1 issue, is only...
...ladder's broken rung, the man's weight was put at somewhere near 160 lb. From vague descriptions given by a taxi-driver who had taken the third ransom note to "Jafsie" Condon and from Condon's own recollections of the intermediary "Johns," a Washington cartoonist was able to make for the Department of Justice sketches of the criminal's face: sharp nose, flat cheeks, small mouth, pointed chin...