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...Carl McNutt, the captain and designated hitter, drove in a run with a single and two more scored as Harrell's pick-off attempt to first went astray. The fourth and final run came in on Gary Miller's double, and that was all for Harrell, who exited in favor of Walsh...
...doodles took the forms of Boob McNutt, Mike and Ike and Foolish Questions. By 1922, Goldberg was earning well over $100,000 a year and had been syndicated by McNaught and King Features. In 1948 he won a Pulitzer Prize for a cartoon called Peace Today, warning of the perils of atomic weapons. But politics did not suit him, and though there were flashes of wit, he gave...
...that sets many men to looking wistfully ahead toward retirement, Reuben Lucius Goldberg embarked on a new career. Into limbo he chucked Boob McNutt, Mike and Ike -They Look Alike, and Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts, the not-so-mad inventor who gave the world such useful devices as the stamp-licking machine. In the next 26 years, Rube Goldberg produced some 5,000 editorial cartoons. But his heart was never really in his work. And last week, at 80 - an age that sets most men to peering wistfully back toward their youth - Goldberg embarked on a new career...
Maybe Better. In the early '30s, the comics themselves began to turn serious, and Goldberg's Lala Palooza, Boob McNutt and company fell out of favor. In 1938, with some reluctance, their creator turned editorial cartoonist for the old New York Sun and, ultimately, for Hearst's New York Journal-American. The assignment did not suit him, although he showed occasional flashes of style. One of his best cartoons, done in 1950 after the Russians had accused the U.S. of starting the Korean war, was deliberately run upside down. It was a portrait of Stalin exhibiting...
Died. Paul Vories McNutt, 63, lawyer, onetime (1933-37) Democratic governor of Indiana and first U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines (1946-47), administrator of key New Deal and Fair Deal agencies and perennial aspirant to the Democratic presidential nomination; of cancer; in Manhattan. Handsome, white-haired Paul McNutt set his sights on the presidency ("I intend to be President of the United States") while still a Harvard Law School student in 1916. He served as a field-artillery officer in World War I, returned to Indiana to become (in 1919) law professor at Indiana University and later (1925-33), dean...