Word: mauldin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since Willie and Joe, his unshaven, unforgettable infantrymen, won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1945, Cartoonist Bill Mauldin has done some syndicate drawing and free-lance writing, puddle-jumped in his private plane, and lives as an exurbanite in New York's Rockland County. He has also dabbled in Democratic politics but has never run for public office. Last week he decided...
...Mauldin said several people had asked him to run for the seat in the U.S. House of Representatives now held by Republican Katharine St. George. Said Mauldin: "I thought it over and said...
...fast-stepping "Falcon" Division,* who overran 1,000 square miles of Sicily in one three-week action. ("Don't you ever sleep?'' asked a German P.W.) The folks at home knew the men of the 45th as the models for Willie and Joe. Thunderbird Cartoonist Bill Mauldin's ragged, wistful G.I.s, and the prototypes of World War II foot soldiers everywhere...
Back at the Front (Universal-International) continues the service misadventures of Cartoonist Bill Mauldin's famed infantrymen, Willie (Tom Ewell) and Joe (Harvey Lembeck). In last year's Up Front, Willie and Joe (then played by David Wayne) were dodging the MPs in Naples during World War II. In Back at the Front, they are still dodging the MPs, this time in Tokyo during the Korean...
...Mauldin's pen & ink infantrymen from Stars & Stripes were a biting commentary on the long-suffering dogfaces of World War II. By surrounding Willie and Joe with a threadbare plot and substituting slapstick for the original's realism, Back at the Front succeeds in making Willie and Joe look more like two-dimensional comic-strip characters than they ever have before...