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...cartoonist for Krokodil, Moscow's sardonic magazine of humor-plus-propaganda, Vitaly Goriaev has many times bitterly lampooned Wall Street as the rotten heart of decadent capitalism. Last week, touring Manhattan as the guest of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists, Goriaev was candidly eager to see what the place is really like. Heading toward the Street in a taxicab, he thought he could sense the pace of city life accelerating. "Time is money," he said. "The closer you get to Wall Street, the more the tempo picks...
Goriaev and fellow traveling cartoonist Ivan Semeonov, who is also Krokodil's art editor, are in the U.S. for three weeks, invited by Dan Bowling, cartoonist for the Republican New York Herald Tribune and president of the U.S. cartoonists. The Russians' deft drawings of the U.S. are being carried by the HT, will appear in a LIFE article next week. The tourists attended the association's convention in Indianapolis last week, will also meet Walt Disney in Los Angeles...
Moscow reminded the world that Russia's leap into space has implications beyond the scientific and the military. A poem in the Russian magazine Krokodil indicates that creation, from a Communist point of view, is at last under new management. Concluding verse...
...Illustrator Vladimir (Boris Godunov, The Lay of the Host of Igor) Favorsky, 71, whose prints have a turn-of-the-century, storybook quality but whose draftsmanship rated a "jolly able, jolly competent" from one British artist. Most original works were by Leonid Soifertis, staffer on the Soviet humor magazine Krokodil, whose casual hand turns out cartoons that rate a Soviet belly laugh, e.g., a dig at infant prodigies that shows a child with huge bull fiddle, both of which have to be carried on the stage. These were rare high points. The show was best described by British Artist Paul...
Eide also wrote an article for the Krokodil which will be published shortly. It is a humorous conversation between the Lampoon's symbol, the Ibis, and the Russian magazine's mascot, a crocodile. Eide said that the article contains a humorous jab at Russia's poor modern architecture. In the article, Ibis says, "I liked St. Basil's best of all the buildings...