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Thus last week did pungent Cartoonist Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, who had done the job of saving the nation's wild life fully as well as any other one man could have done it, explain his resignation as Chief of the U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey...
...Most distressing was the case of the Spokane Spokesman-Review. Like other clients of the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, it had received, a few days before the shooting, the cartoon by J. N. ("Ding") Darling, with the legend: "But nothing ever seems to happen to Huey Long" and depicting death and disaster for practically everyone else (TIME. Sept. 16). Instead of printing the cartoon on schedule, the Spokesman-Review held it over, ran it, by mistake, on the same front page that carried the news of something very serious happening to Huey Long. Before the paper could pull...
...morning last week the New York Herald Tribune published a cartoon by Jay ("Ding"') Darling captioned "The Fates Are Funny That Way." It pictured a wreck at a railway crossing ("36,000 Die in Auto Crashes Every Year!"); a scene in an operating room (''Prominent Senator Succumbs to Emergency Operation!"); a street accident ("Pedestrian Killed Crossing Street!"); a row of dead lying beside a table ("Poison Food Kills 469 at Old Settlers' Picnic!"); a volcano erupting ("Earthquakes, Floods, Cancer and Pestilence Kill Thousands Every Day!"). Beneath this billboard of horrors appeared a citizen, newspaper in hand...
...office at the Department of Agriculture, behind a desk often littered with drawing papers, crayons and watercolors, sits a quizzical, conscientious public servant whose fame is far greater as Cartoonist J. N. ("Ding") Darling of Des Moines, Iowa than as Director Darling of the U. S. Biological Survey. Upon him, for many months, have converged strong currents of conflicting opinion, brought to bear by two opposing armies of enthusiasts on an issue which it was ''Ding" Darling's public trust and duty to decide...
After a wildlife enthusiast had waited days in an outer office to see U. S. Biological Survey Chief Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, the caller brought out a wild turkey call, sounded it long & loud. Out from his inner sanctum sprang Chief Darling. "I was exceedingly busy," he explained. "But when that turkey call sounded it was too much...