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...Jewish flesh and ingenuity would have beamed forth over a nightmarish mechanical design-the canary cries, watering the sensitive plant, which blushes, warming the matchhead, which ignites, inspiring the cat to commit suicide. In this case a high-grade bellboy might have been able to name the handsome patron: Cartoonist Rube Goldberg. The desk clerk could probably have named Mr. Goldberg's companions: Cartoonists Clare Briggs and Bud Fisher. . . . The first formal and annual dinner of the Cartoonists of America was a large event in a circle where events are not numerous...
...paradox holds true in all but a few cases that a cartoonist's creatures become more famous than himself. What voter would be moved by hearing that one Sidney Smith had said thus and so about an election? Yet a recent election was visibly affected, in Texas and other states, when machine-bucking political youngsters stumped the hamlets in behalf of Andy Gump for U. S. Senator...
Senator Ransdell of Louisiana, who is the cartoonist's picture of a retired farmer, bristled at the chin whiskers when he lauded U. S. intervention, thereby pleasing many of his constituents who would like to have the U. S. go in and "clean up" Central America and Mexico, who well know the yell of the Yankee "gringo" to the Mexican "greaser." Said he: "The Communists in Mexico are trying to implant their vagaries in Nicaragua, hoping that they may spread throughout Central America and result in a communistic union of Mexico with the other Central American States, of which...
...Most popular U. S. comic strip character, widely syndicated creation of Cartoonist George Herriman. At his partner-in-comedy, Krazy Kat, he throws hundreds of black ink bricks annually, his aim being uncanny accuracy. As a brick hits Krazy Kat, Ignatz often cries, "Phooey...
...Rube" Goldberg, famed cartoonist: "At the invitation of a New York newspaper (the Post), I went with a common reporter to visit a 'needy case.' We visited a one-time housepainter, paralyzed by paint (lead) fumes, and his wife, who was fighting to keep him from being sent to a poorhouse. In their kitchen all I could find was a loaf of bread, a small sack of flour, two bottles, one of medicine, one of sleeping fluid. Said I: 'I feel sort of rotten, riding away from here in my Minerva. After leaving them, you know...