Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catholic priest, the chances are that I know more about the Church and more about the good & bad of Catholics than Paul Blanshard can ever hope to know. That's why I find his picture of the Church not just fantastic but hilariously funny, like a movie cartoon of the blind men and the elephant. The comedy is dulled, however, by the fact that his book [Communism, Democracy and Catholic Power -TIME, May 21] will be read by many people . . . and the results will be anything but comic, unless we wish to consider hatred as funny...
About a year ago, Hamm hit upon his religious-cartoon idea. He made an auto tour of five states to canvass newspaper editors, promptly went to work when he found that almost all of them were for it. Their enthusiasm has been hard on the Hamm bankroll. Realizing that with 108 papers to service he can no longer swing it alone, Hamm is currently looking for sponsors to back the enterprise. But he turns down any suggestion that he charge for his cartoons, or invite "contributions" from the newspapers...
...Cartooning: The Arizona Republic's Reginald ("Reg") Manning, for his cartoon, "Hats," contrasting the sleek toppers of U.N. diplomats with a G.I.'s bullet-punctured helmet...
Furthermore, many of the ads are well-written. The Life Magazine graph of Harvard tastes is provocative, to say the least, and Jordan Marsh's cartoon might easily be considered a highlight of the issue...
...cartoons rescue the issue, being a shade lower in quality than the average production of the undergraduate editors. Dahl has an unfunny one on the Watch and Ward, and there is an illegibly signed cartoon that picks off another one of television's sitting ducks. A couple of drawings seem to have appeared in the issue either by whim or mistake: a gnome creeping toward a toadstool which has a naked woman lying atop it, and a poorly-drawn baseball pitcher winding up on page 28 to throw to an unequally uninspiring batter on page...