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...little, and thinks up ideas for Out Our Way. When he has a batch of drawings finished (he has a hard time keeping ahead of his deadline) he ships them off in a swanky Cadillac 40 miles over rutted dirt roads to Prescott, where they are mailed to the NEA syndicate headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio...
...children to support and his machinist job gone in a seasonal shutdown, Jim Williams did the hardest work of his life as a coal-heaver in a Detroit power plant, finally, in desperation, applied for a job as a policeman. Just as he had been accepted for the force, NEA decided it liked some of his drawings, asked him to go to Cleveland, offered him a contract to do a cartoon a day. At first Jim Williams' cartoons had hard sledding. Irate Cleveland dowagers wrote letters to the Cleveland Press, complaining that nobody wanted to see pictures...
Today 52-year-old Jim Williams, top man of all NEA's cartoonists, can afford to live as he likes. Under his high-spending management, the ranch (it has never made a red cent) has become one of the show places of the region. But he is shyly conscious of being a little more prosperous than his neighbors, is afraid of being thought a showoff. Talkative and genial, he walks with the swivel-hipped, bowlegged, rolling gait of a cowboy, wears his heart on his sleeve, tells his most intimate business to anybody who happens to be around...
First in another field was NEA Service, when in Texas-born Roy Crane's Wash Tubbs native girls were pictured dancing naked though mud-daubed (see cut), on a South Sea island...
Clint Frank, Yale's great leader, was a unanimous choice for both the NEA and UP teams, while his teammate, Frank Gallagher, was placed on the UP first team and the NEA second squad at the pivot post...