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...76th year and laid aside his crayons for good, his Injun Summer was still the most popular cartoon that ever came out of the Midwest. In recent years his crosshatched, mild-&-mellow drawings, fussy and cluttered-up by modern standards, have all but vanished from Colonel Robert R. McCormick's isolationist, Anglophobic pages. McCutcheon's pen scratched its best when dipped in the milk of human kindness, and one-eyed Carey Orr's vitriol is more to the Colonel's taste. McCutcheon, in failing health, did not mind the eclipse; his kind of cartooning had brought...
Gentle Cartoonist McCutcheon began thinking of calling it quits about the time Bertie McCormick began flogging the New Deal. Retiring now on a fat pension, he plans to loll on his own "Treasure Island" in the Bahamas, poke around the U.S., edit a book of his cartoons. As he once cracked in an after-dinner speech: "I draw to a close, perhaps one of my most successful drawings...
There were nervous titters at this reference to the beating the A.P. had taken at the hands of the Supreme Court (TIME, July 2). The A.P. had obediently amended the bylaws that had enabled members (like the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick) to keep competitors from getting A.P. news. Ex-Justice Roberts-a member of the Court minority that had sided with the A. P.-wisecracked: "[I am told that] the association [has] purified itself-all except Colonel McCormick...
...right about the Colonel. That afternoon lean President Robert McLean adjourned the A.P. meeting. Colonel McCormick, standing by the microphone with his spectacles dangling from one ear, promptly boomed: "The meeting will come to order!" A.P. members, now sitting in carefully prearranged rump session, winked at each other. The unpurified Colonel then put forward a resolution that the A.P. itself did not want to endorse officially: urging Congress to put press associations beyond the reach of antitrust laws...
...goodly section of the U.S. press was seeking exactly that: the McCormick plot to override the Supreme Court was jammed through by a 114-to-30 vote...