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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tell them I'm finger painting," said veteran Newspaper Cartoonist Edmund Duffy when someone recently tried to invade his comfortable retirement at the end of a long and lustrous career. In 1948, after 24 award-studded years (three Pulitzer Prizes) with the Baltimore Sun, Duffy left to try a hand at magazine cartooning for the Saturday Evening Post, drifted briefly back to newspapers-New York City's transitory Star and the Long

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Pinch Hitter | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Island Newsday-before vanishing from public view into an apartment on Manhattan's upper East Side. This week, having dangled an irresistible bait, the Washington Post and Times Herald announced that it had lured Cartoonist Duffy, 60, out of hiding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Pinch Hitter | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Died. Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, 71, British World War I cartoonist who spent his spare time in the muddy trenches in France drawing "Old Bill," the sad-eyed, shaggy-headed, walrus-mustached embodiment of the dogged British Tommy, earned a fortune as Old Bill endeared himself to readers around the world; in Norton, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 12, 1959 | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...love you, Banda, dear," his critics hooted, "because you change from year to year." Yet Banda's talent for political survival was so astonishing that a cartoonist once pictured him as a grinning cat, leaning on his own sixth gravestone and saying, "Well, six down, three to go." Though he once actually fell short of a parliamentary majority, he managed to hold on to power by a judicious distribution of parliamentary secretaryships and minor portfolios. He survived brawls and Cabinet mutinies, ruled, until his death, with a shaky majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEYLON: The People's Premier | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

Died. Olaf Iversen, 57, German newspaperman and cartoonist who in 1954 revived the far-famed, grimly satiric magazine Simplicissimus, filled it with jibes at both East and West, and biting antimilitarist attacks in keeping with the anti-Prussian tradition of the original Simplicissimus (founded in 1896); in Munich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 7, 1959 | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

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