Word: dayton
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American political cartooning, in the doldrums for years while the British were better at it, is at a high level now. You get the impression that the top cartoonists would expel from their midst anyone who had to label a figure "Mondale." Mike Peters of the Dayton Daily News speaks of Mondale's "wonderful beak." Most cartoonists either exaggerate the dark circles under Mondale's eyes so that he looks like a panda or give him hooded lids that look like split coffee beans. The Washington Post's Herblock suspects that some cartoonists make Mondale "lumpier" than...
What emerges from talking by telephone to these men, at their drawing boards in Miami, Dayton, Los Angeles and elsewhere, is what lively loners they are. No longer do top cartoonists labor at drawing gun-at-the-head cartoons to satisfy some publisher's sobersided crotchets. Appearing in many papers gives them freedom. Absorbed by politics, they have their own biases and constantly interview their own reactions, but they don't often let a rigid partisanship keep them from a clever idea that will express a public mood. Undoctrinaire iconoclasm is their style. They think more in metaphors...
...usually just get my books and stationery here," said Gregory M. Dayton '87. "Other stuff seems more expensive here because I just see the prices, but I don't think of the rebate...
David Albritton, 71, cheered the Americans as he watched on television in Dayton, where he no longer coaches high school track-not officially. A silver medalist in the Hitler Games of 1936, a high jumper, Albritton was Jesse Owens' best friend. They roomed together both at college and in Berlin. On the subject of people rooting for one another, Albritton might have some knowledge of what Jesse would have thought of Lewis' equaling his four gold medals. "Different times, different circumstances," he said, "different places, different people. Nobody will ever be Jesse. If Carl is fortunate, he will...
...playing rock music to the house plants, the consequences for the plants, he writes, are surreal: "They're all deaf and two of them are starting to grow zits. And last night our Boston fern's hair caught fire." Stewart remembers when Bombeck wrote at the Dayton paper early in her career. "I wouldn't say that I looked at her and saw she was making $40 million and said, 'God what a racket!' But she certainly gave me an inspiration." -By J. D. Reed