Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lightheartedly, French Novelist Pierre Daninos said yes when ECA asked him to write the captions for a NATO movie cartoon. Then, because this made him a foreign employee of a U.S. Government agency, Daninos received the usual four-page questionnaire asking about his 1) birth & parentage, 2) complexion & distinctive body marks, 3) emotional & mental state, 4) drinking habits, 5) aliases, if any, 6) connections with the Communist Party, if any, 7) past & present employment in detail-and some 50 other questions. Daninos filled in the questionnaire, named three character references, duly swore that he had no intention of "upsetting...
George Prices' collection, "We Buy Old Gold," is a selection from Price's work of the last six years. He too takes the everyday situation, but is 'more existence. Typical of this type of cartoon is the man on the motorcycle receiving gas and oil at the filling station, with one attendant wiping his goggles...
...Krokodils's" contention is that, according to the writing in the upper left hand of the cartoon, The leadership of the educational and scholarly activities of the institutions of higher learning in the United States falls more and more into the hands of the military." The magazine goes on to note that Harvard's educational council "contains ten generals...
...cartoon, the pamphlet at the left is entitled "Military plans," while the one on the right proclaims...
...Operation. Nutty as a fruit cake to all but his ardent fans is Virgil Franklin Partch II (pen name: VIP). Even when seen, a Partch cartoon can hardly be believed. "Guess Who," reads the caption under a domestic scene in which the not-so-little woman has sneaked up on her man from behind and blindfolded him with her bosom. Now 35, Partch has already drawn a man with as many as 19 fingers; he stamps out ugly, proboscidian heads as though he had gone berserk with a giant cookie-cutter. His special bugaboo: meeting his public. "They expect...