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...water and submerged right up to his jug-handle ears. For most men, the solitary ritual of the tub means a chance to escape for a while from the cares and worries of the world outside-but not for William Henry Mauldin, editorial cartoonist of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In Mauldin's cauldron, the heat creates light-in the form of inspiration for his drawing board. The water of his bath is roiled with national and international crises, and in the rising steam swarm the wraithlike figures of politicians, statesmen and world leaders. While his skin turns lobster...
...cartoon characters, Willie and Joe, Mauldin seemed dashed and aimless once the smoke of war had cleared away. "My life has been backwards," he says. "Big success, retirement, and now I'm making an honest living." Starting a brand-new career three years ago at the Post-Dispatch, he has risen to the top of his profession, using as his ladder an inland newspaper that has always encouraged crusaders and viewed the nation and the world with "show me" detachment...
Voodoo & Vulnerability. Mauldin packs a wallop that can be absorbed in seconds-and seconds, as he well knows, are all his work will get from the Post-Dispatch's readers (circ. 406,947) and the other 10 million in his 99-newspaper syndication. He understands even better-as many of his colleagues seem to forget -that editorial cartooning is essentially an aggressive art, aimed at the belly rather than the brain. Mauldin never defends; he attacks. The difference between an editorial cartoon and the editorial across the page, he says, is "the difference between a sergeant's whistle...
...staff cartoonists. They were predominantly men of strong convictions who drew with a brutal vigor that most of today's newspapers would hesitate to print. The best of them-the New York World's Rollin Kirby, whose "Mr. Dry" hastened Prohibition's repeal; the Post-Dispatch's corrosive Daniel R. Fitzpatrick; the Baltimore Sun's hard-hitting Edmund Duffy; J. N. (Ding) Darling of the Des Moines Register and the New York Herald Tribune; Arthur Henry (Art) Young of Chicago's old Inter-Ocean, a bitter commentator on social injustice-burned with an inner...
...offering the somewhat lame excuse that otherwise "the pace of events might pass us by." U.S. Delegate Averell Harriman charged that two companies of Viet Minh troops had participated in the earlier attack on Padong, and again asked Russia's Andrei Gromyko to approve a Canadian plan to dispatch helicopters and light planes to the International Control Commission so that it could carry out its assignment of policing the ceasefire. In the absence of instruction and equipment, the I.C.C. had not budged from its headquarters in Vientiane. In reply, Gromyko was almost insolent. He saw no need for additional...