Word: cartoonists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Former Crimson cartoonist Elliot L. Hoffman '51, now a student at Yale Law School, writes: "I advise you to issue a nationwide call to all Harvard-lovers to be on the look-out for this man. As a follower of Darwin, I am positive that some-where there has evolved this man in answer to Harvard's need for a new president. Because of his various and unique duties as the new president he is unlike other men in many ways and should not be hard to recognize...
Harvard's new tritular head is sketched by David G. Braaten '46, a former CRIMSON cartoonist and now a courier for the State Department...
Speakers at the newly scheduled forum, "Limitations on Free Expression," will be Victor Laski, Oscar Handlin, associate professor of History, and John Clardi, instructor of English. Moderator will be cartoonist Al Capp...
Osborn's style is faintly reminiscent of Cartoonist William Steig's bitter comments on humanity, and the title of his first postwar collection was obviously inspired by Steig's famed caption, "People Are No Damn Good." But where Steig sometimes turns soft and subtle, Osborn is freer and more frightening. With wild, axlike penstrokes, he carves out vicious children, rich dowagers, tyrants and tycoons. Heads become onions festooned with spikes; eyes are thin slits or insane whirls...
Ulcers & Dilbert. Judging from his drawing, Cartoonist Osborn should have a disposition like a snapping turtle. Osborn surprises people by turning out to be a buoyant, handsome man of 48 with a pretty wife and two happy children. The son of a prosperous Wisconsin lumberman, he liked to draw pictures as a youngster, and wanted desperately to be a serious artist. The trouble was, says Osborn, that "I was quite fat, and I had to be funny all the time to cover up this fat business." The strain worried him into an ulcer at 14, but he eventually discovered...