Word: clark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Judges Frederick W. Brune '18 of the First Circuit Court of Appeals, Tom Clark Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and Peter Woodbury '24. Marryland State Supreme Court judge were unanimous in awarding the verdict to Jaffe...
...home. Asked he: "Did I learn anything in school today, Miss Watts? Mom always asks." Or it may be a young secretary standing up to her pompous, jowly boss: "I hate reminding you about that raise, Mr. Doaks, but my husband keeps nagging me about it." Some fans believe Clark is at his best on the domestic scene, e.g., an adolescent daughter, about to leave on a date with her boy friend, puts the bite on her father: "I'll need more, Dad. Eddie and I go dutch treat, but I have to lend him his half...
...Candid Cameraman. Oklahoma-born George Clark started drawing at five, and at 16 began cartooning for Oklahoma City's Daily Oklahoman and Times. He became a staff artist for the Cleveland Press before he was 21. Later, free-lancing in New York, he thought up and sold a cartoon panel called "Side Glances" to N.E.A. Service, Inc. In 1939 he quit for a better deal with the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate. (With a new artist, N.E.A. continued to syndicate "Side Glances," which is often confused with "The Neighbors...
...homey situations, Clark spends hours watching people at soda fountains, listening to women talk on buses, sitting in railroad stations ("The benches are just the right distance apart for watching people"). Much of the time he carries his Leica, snaps hundreds of pictures of street scenes, gestures, buildings and expressions, files them all away for the time when he will need to make a background authentic. Other ideas also come from watching Elise, his wife (and childhood sweetheart), their pretty, brunette daughter Joyce, 22, and nine-year-old son George Jr. All bear strong resemblances to their cartoon counterparts. Another...
...Night Hawk. A restless sleeper, Cartoonist Clark often gets up at 2 a.m. to plod back to the cluttered 6-by-8-ft. cubicle in the eight-room Manhattan apartment where he works. Says he: "It takes me at least six hours to warm up. I sit there trying to work and wondering what I've been doing all these years that it should still come so hard to me." Finally a situation or a gag comes to mind. He starts sketching, often works for twelve hours running to finish the week's supply of six cartoons...