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DIED. Willard Mullin, 76, illustrious sports cartoonist whose incisive, comic pen-and-ink drawings appeared in the New York World-Telegram and such magazines as LIFE and the Saturday Evening Post for more than three decades, and who created the Brooklyn Bum, a grizzled, cigar-chomping caricature of the Brooklyn Dodger baseball fan; of cancer; in Corpus Christi, Texas...
...free G.P.s (for general purpose, and hence Jeep) that could growl through rivers of mud and over impossible obstacles. General George C. Marshall called the Jeep "America's greatest contribution to modern warfare," and the infantry man developed a love affair with his Jeep that was sketched by Cartoonist Bill Mauldin in his Willie and Joe series...
...belongs, in the arms of a beautiful poodle. Which is all right: the hero is fond of putting on the dog. In Tiffky Doofky (Farrar. Straus & Giroux; $7.95), William Steig shows why his juvenile following equals the Pied Piper's, and how four decades as a New Yorker cartoonist have taught him exactly where and how to pull his punch lines...
Saul Steinberg, artist and cartoonist: "The doodle is the brooding of the hand...
...flying style. What is surprising about this rambunctious autobiography, however, is that although Gann tells a number of good wing-and-prayer yarns, some of his most surprising adventures have had nothing to do with aviation. He has been a newsreel cameraman, soldier, Broadway actor, polo player, farmer, cartoonist, commercial fisherman, deepwater yachtsman, Hollywood talent scout and, of course, a bestselling novelist (The High and the Mighty, Band of Brothers). He wrote, directed and sold a movie while still in high school, talked his way into the Yale Drama School without bothering with the usual formality of attending college, worked...