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...least the next two months, hard-punching Duffy, who once drew Franklin D. Roosevelt's arm brandishing a blackjack over the U.S. Supreme Court, will fill in for the Post's liberal (and two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner) Cartoonist Herbert Lawrence ("Herblock") Block, 50, decommissioned last September by a heart attack. For a while the Post got along by running the work of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Bill Mauldin and others, but Post Publisher Philip Graham decided that Herblock needed a fulltime pinch hitter. Herblock agreed. "He went madly for the idea," said Graham...
...features (Playboy, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED), is discussing a screenplay for Director Stanley (Paths of Glory) Kubrick. His income tax for 1958 will be more than his entire income for 1957 (about $7,500), and his 1959 gross promises to run into six figures. This week Feiffer and the Hall Syndicate ("Herblock," Norman Vincent Peale, Pogo) announced that starting in April his work will appear weekly in the Boston Globe, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Newark Star-Ledger and Long Island Press, and added that a score of other papers were in various degrees of negotiations...
Written Denial. Last week, his investigation exposed as a sad and cynical farce, Bender was threatening to sue any publication that reprinted Washington Post and Times Herald Cartoonist Herblock's devastating version of the Bender investigation (see cut). But when a newsman asked to see some of the evidence that Bender claimed to have in his files, Bender could produce nothing more convincing than a letter he had sent to Charles C. Curran, secretary-treasurer of a bakery drivers' (Teamsters) local in Tacoma, Wash. "We would like to know," said Bender's letter, "if there have been...
...Nixon has never shown a white feather concerning Communism. The smearing cartoons by the Washington Post's Herblock and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Mauldin must have caused their editors to give them a "shower" of red stars. It would be appropriate if these cartoonists signed their names in red ink. ANNA MAE G. COUMBOURAS Springfield, Mass...
Column of Whimsy. In the Orient, competition among syndicates and news services has cut prices so low that Berrigan can afford to give his 3,500 readers the biggest names in the business: the Associated Press, United Press International and Reuters; Editorial Cartoonist Herblock; Columnists Art Buchwald, Sylvia Porter, Walter Lippmann and Joe Alsop; Pogo and Steve Canyon comics. Berrigan runs no editorials, explains: "We give the news and let intelligent readers form their own opinions...