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...nature, middle-of-the-road but slightly more on the liberal side than most Mississippi papers." Its syndicated features include everyone from Right-Wing Columnist David Lawrence to Walter Lippmann, the Alsop brothers, Fair-Dealer Doris Fleeson and the Washington Post and Times Herald's Fair-Dealing Cartoonist Herblock. Since most of Jackson's leading businessmen own stock, the State Times had no trouble filling its first issue with ads. But the opposition Clarion-Ledger (circ. 47,269) and Daily News (41,324) will offer stiff competition. Said a Clarion-Ledger editorial last week in an angry blast...
...revealed the contents of the FBI report to the White House on Harry Dexter White before FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover made it public to a Senate committee (TIME, Nov. 30). ¶ For cartooning, the Washington Post and Times-Herald's biting, Fair Dealing Herbert L. Block ("Herblock"). He won his first Pulitzer in 1942. His second is for his cartoon on Stalin's death (see cut), CJ For news photography, Amateur Photographer Mrs. Walter M. Schau, first woman to win the prize. She was driving from her home in San Anselmo (Calif.), when she saw a truck...
...editorial cartoonist for the New York Herald Tribune, Daniel B. Dowling, 47, is one of the best practitioners of the old-fashioned school of cartooning. Instead of blasting with broad, charcoal-black strokes like the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Dan Fitzpatrick or the Washington Post's "Herblock," Dowling gently spoofs with fine-line ink strokes and light caricature. A lifelong Republican. Cartoonist Dowling, who is syndicated in more than 100 papers, is guilty of one big heresy. "I really miss Harry Truman," says he. "When he was President, there was a three-ring circus in Washington." Dowling...
...Herblock admits to their "needling nature." But, he appropriately points out "Cartoons don't make up into lace valentines very well and they're not supposed to. That's not their function...
...latter subject, Herblock's views are completely in tune with all first-rate and perceptive American humorous and historic writing of the last 100 years. Ambrose Bierce stated the whole case in this little fable...