Word: osborn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first-day speakers at last week's World Congress on Fertility and Sterility, which met in Manhattan, told the 1,300 assembled delegates that they ought to be worried about the amount of fertility in the world already. He was Conservationist Fairfield (Our Plundered Planet) Osborn, who argued that the world's baby supply is sadly outstripping the food supply. Most of the delegates were in no great mood to worry. They were interested only in the problem of childless couples who want children...
...remaining drawings are by Al Hirschfeld, drama cartoonist of the New York Times, Dahl of the Boston Herald, Jimmy Hatle of "They'll Do It Every Time," R. Osborn, and David Royce...
Ulcers & Dilbert. Judging from his drawing, Cartoonist Osborn should have a disposition like a snapping turtle. Osborn surprises people by turning out to be a buoyant, handsome man of 48 with a pretty wife and two happy children. The son of a prosperous Wisconsin lumberman, he liked to draw pictures as a youngster, and wanted desperately to be a serious artist. The trouble was, says Osborn, that "I was quite fat, and I had to be funny all the time to cover up this fat business." The strain worried him into an ulcer at 14, but he eventually discovered...
After graduation from Yale, and years of failure as a painter of expressionistic still lifes and landscapes, Osborn decided to concentrate on cartoons. The war gave him his big chance. An admiral saw his broad-penned sketches and put him to work as a lieutenant doing safety pamphlets for the Bureau of Aeronautics. Osborn promptly invented "Dilbert," a pinheaded, bottle-nosed flyer who appeared in 5,000 drawings and made every harebrained mistake in the book. While instructors groaned, Dilbert dived giddily out of the blue until his wing ripped off, ground-looped, stalled, spun and smashed his protesting plane...
Snickers & Shudders. Today Osborn lives on a Connecticut farm, relaxed and happily at peace with the world until he sits down to draw. Then he spears humanity's Dilberts with the savage drawings that have appeared in such magazines as LIFE, FORTUNE, Look and Holiday. "This," he scrawls in the preface to Low & Inside, "is about the steady plight of man; the anarchy of his laughter and the terrifying lawfulness of his tragedies." Whether readers should snicker or shudder at his insane world, even Osborn doesn't know. "Humor is a funny business," says...