Word: mauldin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Mauldin has it made (your cover, plus 26 thou' per), is he big enough...
...Mauldin is a comer all right, but he's years behind Yardley...
...discussion I had with Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr. shortly after Bill Mauldin's encounter with him, he expressed his disapproval of Mauldin's portrayal of the front-line soldiers: the cartoons could influence too many rear-echelon soldiers-all the way back to England, if not the U.S.-into affecting similar sloppy appearances in order to look like combat soldiers...
General Patton contended that this could unnecessarily make for a widespread problem in military discipline and apparently based his opinion on the rather surprising assertion that "we had the same trouble with Bairnsfather in the last war." Which at least shows that Mauldin was following a hallowed military tradition...
...complaint. Dashing Captain Bruce Bairnsfather went to France in 1914 with Britain's Royal Warwickshire Regiment, saw his cartoons-featuring a character called "Old Bill"-become immensely popular with soldiers and civilians alike. For a Bairnsfather World War I classic, which could have served as a prototype for Mauldin's World War II Willie and Joe cartoons...