Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sirs: From one who is reluctant to write a "Dear Editor" letter, to those who constantly write them, this cartoon by Webster seemed pat! In case you have not seen it (though as it is copied* from the New York World the chances are you have)-it seemed to me to fit so many of the captious readers you apparently have (and are not alone in this). Do most people read for the pleasure of being critical and not for the absorbing interest of the knowledge gained? From one who admires the magazine's style and learns much. MADALEN...
...same humor that made him remark to Mrs. Coolidge when Inauguration Day turned out rainy: "Well, Grace, it usually rains on moving day." Receiving reporters in his old law office, bearing the sign of "Coolidge and Hemenway," he held in his hand, and ratified with a grin, a cartoon which showed him lying in a New England bed under a New England comforter, derisively grinning at an alarm clock that was trying to get him up at 7 a.m. He said that he was not going abroad, was not going to become a professional writer. For a few days...
Even the conservative Saturday Evening Post has acquired this new attitude. Its March 2 issue (3,050,000 copies, to be read by perhaps 15,000,000 U. S. men, women and children) contained a veiled rebuke for female failure to use contraceptives. The rebuke consisted of a cartoon by Donald McKee, captioned "Why the March Hare Was Mad." It depicted a buck hare hopping furiously beside a huge bed on whose three pillows lay an abashed, puzzled doe hare with nine newborn.* Harold the buck hare: "Again? What's the idea? Did you never hear of Birth Control...
Chuckles were heard in tens of thousands of British homes when the famed London weekly Sketch arrived and was ruffled over to a peculiarly English full page cartoon in decorous pastel colors...
...Greek newsagents--so if you don't, you can take a run to the Art Museum, and pick out what you do like. You will run a long way before you find in any December magazine whatever a better idea than Hichborn has found for his full page cartoon, "The Three Wise Men." That is Punch, at Punch's best--not in technique, but in idea...