Word: cartoonists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early ambition to be a cartoonist was handicapped by the fact that his father, who had been gassed in World War I, had a hard time feeding his family. But when Bill was 17, his grandparents had scraped together enough to send him off to Chicago to study at the Art Institute...
General Eisenhower had effectively ended the coddling of distinguished German captives by susceptible U.S. generals (TIME, May 27). But an eloquent sermon on the subject by famed G.I. Cartoonist Bill Mauldin was still news when it was syndicated in the U.S. last week...
...adventures of shrewish Josephine and gullible George, whose chief vice was signing papers before he read them. But the Bungles' incessant quarreling, which would have exhausted any real life couple, eventually got too painful for the readers. The strip's newspaper clients dropped to 70 in 1942. Cartoonist Tuthill, as bored as everyone else, killed the Bungles. Eight months later, he started them up again, this time with three teen-aged children. He explained this extraordinary family expansion: "Anything can happen in wartime." Last week the Bungles stopped dead, in the middle of a quarrel (see cut). Cartoonist...
Victory in Europe did something to two untidy G.I.s that morale officers or spit-&-polish generals could never do. Last week Cartoonist Bill Mauldin's famed Willie and Joe washed their dirty faces. (Joe, on being scoured up, proved to look startlingly like button-nosed Mauldin himself...
...newspapers which reprint them, changed the standing head from "Up Front" to "Sweating It Out." If Mauldin gets his way, the caption will shortly be changed again, first to "Going Home," then to "Back Home." With a wife & child, five battle-stars and a Purple Heart, Cartoonist Mauldin has 127 points-far more than the 85 he needs to get his Army discharge. In Rome last week, after five years of Army and two years of war, he made it plain that he was tired of being a soldier...