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...Cartoonist Jacob Burck for his cartoon "If I Should Die Before I Wake," depicting a child praying in a bomb-shattered room; 53-year-old former College Professor Leonard Bacon, for his book of verse Sunderland Capture; Biographer Ola Elizabeth Winslow for her Jonathan Edwards; the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for its campaign against smoke nuisance in St. Louis. To the New York Times went a special citation for "the public educational value of its foreign-news reports...
...show of the most popular form of art in the U.S.: newspaper cartooning. Reeves Lewenthal's up-&-coming Associated American Artists Gallery (TIME, April 21) picked for its show one of the best and most widely reproduced editorial cartoonists in the U.S.: the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick...
...studying algebra and history. In Chicago he found he could make money turning out comic strips for the Chicago Evening News at $1 apiece. Before he was 21 the Evening News had hired him to do front page cartoons. A year later he heard that the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's cartoonist had quit, got the job, started out with a cartoon attacking the old-fashioned wooden railroad coach by depicting one as a coffin on wheels. Today, after more than 27 years with the Post-Dispatch, sandy-haired, white-mustached Fitzpatrick is one of the four top-rank...
This opinion was enough for one veteran Roosevelt-hater, flashy, pompous Correspondent John O'Donnell of the New York Daily News, who wrote a dispatch that certain "Senators" (he meant Mr. Tobey) now knew that the President had permitted the "escorting" of British ships to convoy rendezvous, using the Neutrality Patrol of Navy and Coast Guard boats. Next morning Mr. Roosevelt authorized Secretary Stephen T. Early to announce: "The President . . . thought the author of the story had very cleverly woven the longtime historic policy of the United States into a story which is a deliberate...
...loudspeakers several times daily to listen to a call to arms that rocketed from a mike 4,500 miles away. Highly effective, these war cries from abroad were credited in official circles with having played no small part in keeping Yugoslavia out of Hitler's hands. Said a dispatch to the U.S. State Department from the American Legation in Belgrade: "Everybody has been listening to the broadcasts, which whipped up the hatred against Germany." They also promised the British were coming, with the Yankees not far behind...