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This month, Herblock will add another laurel to his balding pate when the National Gallery of Art's Rosenwald Collection buys several cartoons from his Corcoran show. He will thus become the first U.S. living cartoonist in the Rosenwald group of prints and etchings. The only other: Britain's David Low (TIME...
...Bosses. Herblock has been cartooning for 21 years. A Chicago chemist's son, he won a scholarship to Chicago's Art Institute. In 1929 he quit school to start cartooning on the Chicago Daily News, later moved to Cleveland and the Newspaper Enterprise Association. In 1941, Herblock drew the cartoon for N.E.A. that won him a Pulitzer: a German soldier searching the sky for a British bomber while Parisians look on and grin...
Then Block joined the Army and put out a G.I. information sheet. In 1945, ex-Sergeant Block had lunch with Washington Post Publisher Eugene Meyer. Said Herblock: "I'll send you a batch of my cartoons so you can get a line on me." Replied Publisher Meyer: "And I'll send you some editorials so you can see how you like us." The liking was mutual...
...still is. Now syndicated to 150 other U.S. newspapers plus the European Herald Tribune, the Rome Daily American and the Manila Bulletin, Herblock is also the first cartoonist to appear in the weekly London Economist...
...just swallowed an Administration canary. One runner-up: an unhappy Republican elephant consulting a psychiatrist because of a feeling that he is "not wanted." In more bitter mood, e.g., challenging the Un-American Activities Committee's qualifications for purging textbooks ("Now to find somebody that can read"), Herblock sometimes has the deadly point of a poisoned dart...