Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editorial cartoonist for the New York Herald Tribune, Daniel B. Dowling, 47, is one of the best practitioners of the old-fashioned school of cartooning. Instead of blasting with broad, charcoal-black strokes like the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Dan Fitzpatrick or the Washington Post's "Herblock," Dowling gently spoofs with fine-line ink strokes and light caricature. A lifelong Republican. Cartoonist Dowling, who is syndicated in more than 100 papers, is guilty of one big heresy. "I really miss Harry Truman," says he. "When he was President, there was a three-ring circus in Washington." Dowling...
...political humor always keeps on top of the news, put his pen to work on the big political consideration of the week: President Eisenhower's need for Democratic support in Congress to push through his legislative program. But Dowling still has more fun with the opposition, e.g., his cartoon of Stevenson in a lifeboat after his recent speech on the "fears" that have spread in the U.S. since the Republicans took office...
Fast Watch. Dowling's light touch is the result of heavy work. He puts in more than ten hours a day (six days a week) to turn out six cartoons. He attends the daily morning Trib editorial conference, and though he rarely gets his subject there, the run-through helps him focus on the main news. After the 11 a.m. conference, he races to make his 4:30 p.m. deadline. Dowling always keeps his watch set an hour and a half fast. "Sometimes," says he, "I look at" my watch and it says 4 o'clock...
Though Dowling's cartoon world is populated with recognizable caricatures, he plasters signs all over his drawings. For example, he recently tagged a battered
...next half-hour he sang his own ditties. Most of his songs gnawed and worried at a popular cliché until it was as grotesque as a Charles Addams cartoon. I Wanna Go Back to Dixie touted the sordid side of the Old South; a Love Song listed the discouraging aspects of senility. For the late show, the Lehrer lyrics got more gory and clinical, with a few interpretive asides by the entertainer (e.g., "The reason most folk songs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people"). When he finished, the audience happily howled for more...