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In the few decades just before and just after the 20th century began, U.S. political cartooning enjoyed its golden age. At a time when there were some 500 more daily papers than today, most of them had staff cartoonists. They were predominantly men of strong convictions who drew with a...
Coad's troubles had been building up for quite a while. They came into public view only after Clark Mollenhoff, the deep-digging Washington correspondent for the Des Moines Register, got fascinated by Coad's marital affairs. Last March, it seemed, Merwin Coad had traveled to Double Springs...
Visitors crowd around Barry Goldwater's fourth-floor suite in the old Senate Office Building, hoping to earn a passing handclasp or a hastily scrawled autograph. During a recent trip to the Midwest, a worshipful couple approached Goldwater in Des Moines to say that even their two-year-old...
One morning last week, a group of Russian journalists checked out of Manhattan's Commodore Hotel and took off across town for the liner Queen Elizabeth and the start of their long voyage home. Behind them lay a 19-day guided tour of the U.S., past such assorted landmarks...
The warmth of the crowds that greeted him was enough to lure almost anyone back to politics. He had to fight his way past well-wishers and autograph seekers in crowded hotel lobbies. Everywhere he spoke there were large and obviously enchanted crowds: 3,000 at a $25 box supper...