Word: cartoonists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Cartoonist Robert Osborn left the Navy in 1946, he paid his respects to the military with a small book of cartoons entitled War Is No Damn Good! Across its pages strutted a wonderful, viciously funny parade of balloon-shaped generals and admirals, gorilla-faced noncoms and forlorn, tortured G.I.s. Last week Osborn finally paid his respects to civilian life with a book called Low & Inside (Farrar, Straus & Young; $3.75). If anything, the sequel is even deadlier and more acidly humorous than the original...
Raymond Radiguet, whose masterpiece, Count d'Orgel, is published this week in the U.S., was a literary prodigy. He was born near Paris in 1903, one of a large tribe of children sired by a cartoonist for the Paris comic magazine Le Rire. Of his mother Radiguet once said: "I don't know very well what her face looked like. She was always tying shoelaces...
...cartoonist for the New Yorker, Soglow is also the creator of The Little King which he new draws for King Features Syndicate. He is the author of the book, "Wasn't the Depression Terrible?" This is the tenth of the series on Harvard's new president. The next prediction will came from Yale and will appear in Thursday's paper...
...Washington last week, a federal court jury decided that Eastern Air Lines must pay $65,000 for the deaths of Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Miller, who were among the 55 (including Cartoonist Helen Hokinson) killed in a 1949 crash over National Airport. Claims against Eastern growing out of this accident may total $15 million; the Miller case is the first of these to be decided. The Bolivian government refused to accept legal responsibility for Bolivian Pilot Erick Rios Bridoux, whose plane rammed the airliner...
...cartoonist for the Herald since 1930, Dahl is the author of "Left-Handed Compliments," "What! More Dahl?" and "Dahl's Brave New World...