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...Post's sharpest cut into the elephant's hide appears daily on the editorial page and in 150 other U.S. papers: the brilliant political cartoon by Herblock, 46-year-old Chicago-born Herbert Lawrence Block, No. 1 U.S. cartoonist, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner. A left-wing Democrat, Herblock almost quit the Post in 1952 because it was supporting Eisenhower, did not do any cartoons for the paper during the week before the election...
...TIME, which has never considered Cartoonist Herblock or his work too hot to handle, is determined to remain cool under the collar...
...month the Fund was attacked again for hiring Fifth Amendment-Pleader Amos Landman as a part-time pressagent; it replied that Landman had been hired because he was competent. Subsequently, plans to spend $200,000 to put the Washington Post and Times Herald's liberal cartoonist Herbert Block (Herblock) on TV were scrapped "by mutual consent" (TIME...
...Fund for the Republic, it seemed a solid journalistic coup. The Fund, an offshoot of the Ford Foundation, had signed up the Washington Post and Times Herald's famed cartoonist, Herbert Lawrence Block (Herblock), to make 26 15-minute TV films of news comment illustrated by his cartoons, had allocated $200,000 to put on the programs...
Then the Fund for the Republic ran into trouble. The American Legion denounced it, charged that it was telling Americans that Communism was no serious threat to the nation. Herblock, a Fair Deal Democrat whose best target is the Republican right wing, is also a prime target for the Republicans. Recently, the right-wingers bombarded him heavily because of a cartoon that turned out to be badly timed. The cartoon portrayed President Eisenhower carrying Vice President Nixon on his back, with the caption: "You're going to run again, aren't we?" Herblock had drawn the cartoon before...