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People no longer hesitate to confess that they simply do not like to drive-an admission that would have been treated as an aberration a few years ago. Some former auto commuters like Pulitzer-Prizewinning Cartoonist Herblock explain that they swore off the gas when they realized that they were incurably bad drivers. "I was just too tense or too relaxed to drive well," says Herblock (real name: Herbert Block), whose cartoons occasionally picture autos as demented beasts. Who could be censured for preferring the luxury of a chauffeured limousine, particularly if someone else is footing the bill...
Herbert L. Block of the Washington Post--better known as "Herblock"--won the prize for editorial cartooning for the third time in 37 years...
...Herblock's Law. If it's good, they'll stop making it.−Cartoonist Herbert Block...
...recognized as such. My opinion." To honor the Pulitzer-prizewinning cartoonist, the National Press Club gave him its Fourth Estate Award, which has gone in the past to such heavies as CBS's Walter Cronkite and the New York Times's James Reston. The 68-year-old "Herblock," as he signs his name, says he plans to keep at it for "20 or 30 more years." Now that he doesn't have Nixon around any more, he is concentrating on President Carter. Jimmy, he finds, "looks a little like both Jack Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt...
...large newspaper chains, profits and revenues are almost never disclosed. Thus there is no way of knowing for sure which syndicate is largest, though most insiders would probably not dispute this rough ranking: 1) King Features (Blondie, Beetle Bailey, "Hints from Heloise"); 2) Field Newspaper Syndicate (Dennis the Menace, "Herblock," "Ann Landers"); 3) United Feature (Jack Anderson, Peanuts); 4) NEA (Alley Oop, Bugs Bunny); 5) Chicago Tribune-New York News (Dick Tracy, Li'l Abner, Brenda Starr). After that, the field becomes blurred...