Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rome's Communist weekly New Ways five years ago ran a cartoon showing the Pope atop a tank, a dollar sign dangling from his neck. He was blessing such heavily armed "warmongers" as Churchill, Dulles and Harriman (see cut). When the Italian government spotted the cartoon it began a criminal action against the editor, since under Italian law insults to the Pope are punishable by the government. But it could not get its case into court. Reason: the New Ways' editor is Luigi Longo, hard-bitten leader of Italy's Communist partisans during...
...their real purpose for such extra curricular activity being ultimate memberships in a senior society. As President Griswold told the CRIMSON: "Down here we need to start doing things for their own sake, not for what they will lead to." We also refer Mr. May to the Yale News cartoon "To Be or Not to Be" which appeared shortly before Tap Day in 1950. The cartoon showed a mass of scrambling Yale men ascending to a heaven labeled "secret societies" by means of a ladder whose rungs were "Activities ... athletics...fraternities...
...Yorker cartoon of some months ago pictured a perpendicular mountain peak, with two puffing, heavily loaded climbers just reaching the top. Standing at the summit was a third gentleman, dressed in business suit and Alpine hat. He was shouting excitedly into a walkie-talkie...
Besides being funny, this cartoon accurately illustrates two important points. In the first place, there were two men; in the second place, somebody had got there ahead of them...
...instance, what more can be said about U. S. Diplomacy" and the "Palestine Issue" as of April, 1948, than the accompanying cartoon says? A treatise on how important oil is to America and to the whole free world would miss the hypocrisy of our stand. Documented proof that we were really interested in the people directly affected would disguise the fact that, no matter how we felt about that, oil was more important. And what simple denunciation of our policy would have the force of this cartoon? from The Herblock Book, Beacon Press...