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...Creator. How was it that a 23-year-old soldier from New Mexico, who had never harmed a flea in his life, could achieve such fame-and such authority? A paragraph of Up Front casts some light on the mystery. After five years in the Army, Bill Mauldin fully understands the infantryman, and he has a sharp eye, a good ear and a facile pen for transmitting his understanding. He wrote...
...Bill Mauldin was born on a farm in New Mexico's Sacramento Mountains. He was a sickly kid with rickets who, to pass the time while others played strenuous games, drew pictures of himself riding wild broncos. At nine he sold his first picture-of a boy & girl crying over a puppy's grave. Bill sent it to Sergeant's Dog Medicines. The president said he could not use it in company advertising, but he kept it and sent Bill...
...Meets Girl. No one then could have guessed the final destination of the 45th, least of all Private Bill Mauldin, who was spending more than his share of time on K.P. and dreaming of his cartoonist future. In 1941 the 45th was training at Texas' Camp Barkeley. One day Mauldin went in to nearby Abilene. It was raining. On a street corner, he met two girls and another boy. Mauldin knew one of the girls. The other was named Norma Jean Humphries; she was a student at Abilene's Hardin-Simmons University. Jean, now 21, remembers the scene...
...months later, a soldier's wife, Jean was following Private Bill Mauldin on the dreary round of Army camps. In the spring of 1943, when she told him that a baby was on the way, Bill persuaded the Army Times to bring out a book of his cartoons. The Army Times paid him $100 down. Bill sailed off to war. He was in Sicily when his son was born...
...solved the problem of drawing paper by using the backs of portraits of Mussolini and the King of Italy, which he found hanging in virtually every Italian home. He marlp notes up front but did his drawings back in rear areas-not in foxholes, as has been reported. Says Mauldin, "Anybody who can draw in a foxhole...