Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have used many art forms for " TIME covers-painting, drawing, cartoon, collage, woodcut, sculpture -but never before the special blend that makes up this week's cover on Playboy Editor Hugh Hefner. It is the work of Marisol, whose highly original and wryly appealing style joins wood sculpture, drawing and painting (not to mention carpentry) in a unique combination. The components of her portraits may be odd -a box, a block, a barrel-but they perceptively convey likeness as well as character. "Her art is that of a toy-maker," wrote TIME'S art critic in 1963, "designed...
...treasurer of Playboy, was and is a regular Methodist churchgoer; so is Grace. In his early years, Hefner was the kid across the aisle in school who was always scribbling sketches. He liked to write up the doings of local kids for a neighborhood newspaper, and drew 70 cartoon strips about ornery Western outlaws, an interplanetary space traveler and a diabolical villain named Skull...
...added more substantial content as he went along; today's Playboy is a well-stuffed product, bulging with intellectual ambitions and self-confidence. It even includes some tips from John Paul Getty on how to succeed in business. The humor, however, remains on a fairly primitive level. A typical cartoon shows a playboy in bed with a bunnyesque girl, asking: "Why talk about love at a time like this...
...British claim that the name is no one's private property and that the non-Spanish brands are clearly so identified. Not always, objected the Spaniards, who hauled out a cartoon ad for "British Sherry" in which a matador shouts "Magnifico!" "Why a matador rather than a Devonshire lassie?" one judge asked. "The character in this cartoon," explained a man from Whiteways Cyder, one of the plaintiffs, "was misguided...
Harvard alumni are notorious non-writers (even the McNamara incident drew only 25 letters). A famous cartoon in the Bulletin's fiftieth anniversary issue shows seven superimposed editors, each sitting beneath the portrait of his predecessor, and each reading a letter that begins "It strikes me that this year's football ticket situation is the worst in Harvard history." The implication that the old alums who do put pen to paper are sure to be uninspired and predictably stuffy isn't true, according to Bethell...