Word: mauldin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kudos for the story on the Post-Dispatch's Bill Mauldin [July 21]. Although never known for its adaptability to new ideas, the Midwest can be proud of Dan Fitzpatrick's equally corrosive successor. Mauldin gives fair promise of adhering to Joseph Pulitzer's platform: "Always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties...
With just one paragraph, your fine cover story on Bill Mauldin dismisses the importance of the greatest American cartoonist since Nast...
...Bill Mauldin seems to change his "principles" according to his personal position at a given time...
...left-hander who works carefully up from the lower right-hand corner so as not to smear his work, Mauldin generally has finished next day's cartoon by 6, personally escorts it to the engraving department ("I would never trust a copy boy with it") before "heading out for the Bismarck, a Post-Dispatch hangout, for a relaxing martini or two with friends. But his thoughts are never far from the job. His second wife Natalie, a Sarah Lawrence graduate whom Mauldin met at a Manhattan party after the war, has learned not to talk to Bill at bedtime...
Outdistancing the Field. In a profession by no means overcrowded with talent, Editorial Cartoonist Bill Mauldin has outdistanced the field. There are a few strong pens still around, but not many...