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...Kansas City Star itself is its reputation for taboos. Its late great founder William Rockhill Nelson 50 years ago kept a list of persons who must not be mentioned in the Star's columns. Moreover, Colonel Nelson being portly, no Star cartoonist dared caricature a fat man. The present-day taboo of the Star and its morning running-mate, the Times, is less explicable, more picturesque. For reasons of his own Publisher George Baker Longan will not permit snakes to be pictured or mentioned...
When Star readers picked up the Sunday comic supplement last fortnight they were more amused than usual. A startling thing had happened. There on the front page, in Cartoonist H. J. Tuthill's "The Bungle Family," was-not one little snake -but a long, fat, wriggling rattlesnake in bright green, yellow & red, in 15 different poses. When Mr. Bungle saw it he shouted in half-inch letters: "A SNAKE!" He then fought and wrestled gruesomely with it through four cartoon panels before it was revealed to be a dummy snake, the practical joke of another character in the strip...
...Legend of Bibendum's conception: Some one saw a pile of tires heaped up in the Michelin factory at Clermont-Ferrand, France, and fancied a grotesque human resemblance. A cartoonist named O'Gallot was commissioned to make the pile of tires into a trademark. Soon along the highways of the world appeared the inflated figure of Bibendum, so called because he originally appeared holding a goblet of wine, and with the slogan Nunc est Bibendum ("The time has come to drink"). The blurbal application of the slogan was that Michelin tires "drank up" the shocks and bumps of travel...
Other July 4 birthday celebrators: Actor George Michael Cohan, 52; Cartoonist Reuben Lucius ("Rube") Goldberg...
Like many another famed cartoonist, Rea Irvin served his apprenticeship on a San Francisco newspaper.* After intermittent work on newspapers and as an itinerant actor, he gained prominence as the illustrator of Author Wallace Irwin's "Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy" in Life. The oriental stamp of his "Hashimura Togo" sketches has reappeared from time to time in burlesque kakemono (Japanese scroll pictures) which he prepares for the New Yorker, of which he is art director. Cartoonist Irvin will continue his series of funny advertisements for Murad ("Be Nonchalant") cigarets...