Word: cartoonists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drawing board last week in the Chicago Sun-Times (circ. 544,784), Pulitzer Prizewinning Cartoonist Jacob Burck, 49, was going over the proofs of a cartoon for next day's paper. It showed the grasping hand of Soviet power being squeezed open by rebellious satellite citizens as they desperately tried to escape (title: "Losing His Grip?"). Just as he was finishing with the proof, the phone rang. On the line was a reporter from the rival Chicago Daily News. He told Burck that the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service had just ordered him deported on the grounds that...
...Government's charge was based on evidence that "from at least late 1934 or early 1935 to at least some time in 1936" Burck was a member of the Communist Party. Technically, the Government had a case. Born in Poland, Cartoonist Burck (original name: Yakko Bochkowski) came to the U.S. at ten. During the Depression, he was a frequent contributor to Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker, and one day in 1934 he took a party card from a persistent editor in the Worker's office to "keep him quiet." In 1935 he went to Moscow to sell...
...Times Publisher Marshall Field Jr. backed up his cartoonist, and so did the Post-Dispatch in an editorial: "The idea that Jacob Burck should be banished behind the Iron Curtain is nothing less than preposterous . . . There is nothing 'subversive' whatever about his metropolitan daily newspaper cartooning, which now dates back more than 16 years. Assume that he realized his error and . . . sincerely changed his affiliation . . . Should the U.S. then not want to reclaim him as it has . . . others who saw their mistake...
...working in a cafeteria, ushering at a theater and cooking on an ore boat. He finally landed a staff job on the Chicago Daily News, and at 22 was hired by the PD, where he has been ever since. Now, earning one of the highest salaries of any political cartoonist in the U.S., Fitz thinks newspaper cartooning has suffered because good artists have deserted it for more lucrative fields. Says he: "Many artists who might have become editorial cartoonists have gone into comic strips, which I understand are comparable to owning oil wells...
Derived from a story by oldtime Cartoonist Dr. Seuss ("Quick, Henry! The Flit!"), the movie wanders through mammoth sets that seem as boundless as a boy's dreams, recording, without undue surprise, the most surprising details. Dr. T.'s castle is equipped with topless sky ladders, sliding doors, subterranean passages, split staircases that lead nowhere, an outsize shovel for putting the doctor's ill-gotten greenbacks in the safe, and a pair of Siamese-twin flunkies, joined by one long white beard, who go about their chores on roller skates. Best of many good sequences: a bizarre...