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From his first cartoon for the P-D 40 years ago (an attack on wooden railroad coaches showing a train of coffin-shaped cars rounding a bend of track) to his poignant chronicle of the Depression (a beaten, slumped worker standing in front of a soup kitchen-"One Person Out of Ten") and his savage jabs at the Republican campaign (McCarthy, Cain and Jenner waiting at the stage entrance to go on in a show called "Ike's Crusade"), Fitz has drawn with power and simplicity...
...Distillery. Fitz's day in his office off the P-D city room begins with his feet up on his desk, a pad of copy paper in his lap. He sometimes makes many rough drafts before he gets what he likes, often keys his cartoons in with P-D editorial campaigns, and frequently consults the paper's editors for ideas and suggestions. "The whole process of creating a cartoon," he explains, "is one of distillation. All the mash of information and detail bubbles and boils around. The first run should disclose the subject. Then it is redistilled until...
Fitz is free to say what he wants, and this P-D contract provides that he never has to draw a cartoon that doesn't represent his full conviction. In 1936, when the mercurial P-D decided to support Alf Landon, Fitz a resolute F.D.R. man, served notice that he would draw no political cartoons, and drew none. He also stayed away from politics in 1948, when the P-D backed Dewey, but he was hand in hand with the paper again in supporting Stevenson in 1952. His own favorite cartoons are chiefly political. Among them (see cuts...
Ever since the late great Joseph Pulitzer's death in 1911, his St. Louis Post-Dispatch under his son and namesake, now 67, has maintained its tradition for digging beneath the news and exposing malefactors. Using its sharp nose for hidden news, the P-D (circ. 400,218) has already won four Pulitzer Prizes for "disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by a U.S. newspaper," more than any other daily. This week the P-D cinched its title by winning the Pulitzer Prize* again for its outstanding digging throughout...
...totalled $14,000 and Siskind admitted that he has done only about five minutes' work for Lithofold in 28 months. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch charged that Bill Boyle got a total of $8,000 from Lithofold, instead of the $1,250 he swears to. Last week the P-D's Lithofold expert, Reporter Ted Link, followed Boyle to the stand and stood firmly on the $8,000. One of his anonymous sources, said Link, told him: "Mr. Siskind is giving Mr. Boyle half of the Lithofold fee and it will show up in Boyle's bank...