Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Max Fleischer, 89, dean of movie cartoonists, who in the '20s and '30s brought to the screen Popeye the Sailor, Betty Boop and the "Out of the Inkwell" cartoon series; in Los Angeles. Fleischer's first animated feature, made in 1917, took a year to create and ran less than one minute. During the next two decades he acquired more than two dozen patents for his technical production innovations, which helped make animated cartoons a major part of the movie industry...
After such fare, young Edwin turns to cartoons with enthusiasm. He starts by saying things like "Thanks, Mister," with appropriate cartoon intonation. Then comes a little poem written on the death of a friend that ends with "That's all, folks!" Mullhouse's novel, which also ends with the immortal cartoon closing line from Looney Tunes, seals its author's literary future. Jeffrey decides that his own mission in life is to immortalize his friend in a biography. His next thought is that it is damned inconvenient for a biographer to have a living subject messing things...
...object strenuously to the heading "The Coronation of King Richard" [Aug. 28] and to the cartoon that goes with it. This is not reporting, but ridicule and insult. I object also to the story on the Republican Convention because of a continual tone, or undertone, of ridicule and criticism. I am a Republican and I favor the re-election of President Nixon, so I don't pretend to be impartial, but I am angered by the tone of the article...
...seems to me that you owe an apology for the heading and for the cartoon. They are not funny. (THE REV.) L.P. VAN SLYKE Nunda...
LIKE the family in the cartoon below, more and more middle-class parents, especially in the cities, are beginning to be confronted by a rather unusual problem: unmarried teen-age lovers who want to share a bedroom on visits home. Some reactions...