Word: mulliner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wisecracks with their jockeys on the drive to the wire. More startling, his situations may be parodies of a Keats poem or a Steinbeck novel. A literate wit, plus a newsman's flair for capsuling the essence of a story, is the mark of Sports Cartoonist Willard Harlan Mullin, 55, of the Scripps-Howard New York World-Telegram and Sun (circ...
...Mullin draws for a New York audience, but he has become a national institution. Besides the World-Telly, where he has appeared six times a week for the past 23 years (except for vacations and one missed deadline when a cartoon was lost), Mullin runs sporadically in the other 20 Scripps-Howard papers, regularly in the weekly Sporting News. His madcap figures have also illustrated dozens of magazine articles (LIFE. Saturday Evening Post), peddled Ramblers for American Motors Corp., and brightened Frank G. Menke's Encyclopedia of Sports...
...Last week, back from his annual trip to West Point for some friendly golf, chess and fishing with the Army's Football Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik, Mullin was zestfully skewering a typical summer's assortment of subjects. In for a joshing came Heavyweights Floyd Patterson and Roy Harris of Cut and Shoot, Texas. A potbellied, stein-hoisting Brave celebrated Milwaukee's National League lead in German dialect, and days later Mullin's cutlass-swinging Pittsburgh Pirate was walking the plank while a puzzled Brave looked...
Major M. J. Mullin of the Boston draft board said that the new law would not apply to teaching fellows. "We consider them students first and teachers second, so they retain a student status...
playing at the Dedham, Country Club, the Crimson's number one man, Ted Cooney, whipped B.U.'s Leo Mullin 5 and 4, and carded a 69 in his match. Sophomore Bill McAllister, won 4 and 3, shooting...