Word: hoban
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BIRTHDAY FOR FRANCES, by Russell and Lillian Hoban (Harper & Row; $2.95). The mischievous song-singing little badger, Frances, is back with a new adventure, this time exhibiting all the natural childhood jealousies as preparations are made for her sister's birthday party. After a great deal of soul searching, Frances gives her sister a present, a much squeezed "Chompo...
...Never before have I seen such a beautiful cover painting as that on your July 31st issue. It was a touching and thoughtful study. Mr. Hoban has a rare gift, and I am grateful to him for sharing it with the world...
Work on the cover story began long before the riots blasted Harlem to the top of the news. Artist Russell Hoban walked and drove through the streets for hours to renew his impressions of Harlem before he made the first sketches for his cover painting. It is a composite of many sights he saw and of the plain people of Harlem as he thought of them, "worried and watchful." Researcher Virginia Adams pored over most of what has been written about Harlem to compile a pointed summary that supplemented the correspondents' reports. In addition to all this material, Writer...
...pursue his subject a block away-to that upholstered saloon for the rented-Cadillac set called 21. Despite the convenience. McPhee's assignment deserves some kind of endurance prize, for he saw his subject in a gamut of moods: testy, comradely, hostile, candid, suspicious, trusting. Cover Artist Russell Hoban too, spent hours with his man, and sought to catch-in one portrait-some of the restless complexity of Gleason's character...
Nevertheless, let Mr. Hoban remain a member in good standing of the neoglassicists. He did his best...