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WILLIAM C. ROBBINS Editorial Page Editor Wisconsin State Journal Madison...
Sensing that his "law-and-order" theme is catching hold, he blamed Democratic "welfare state" attitudes for a nationwide crime increase (see story on page 38). "If it is entirely proper for Government to take from some to give to others," he asked, "then won't some be led to believe that they can rightfully take from anyone who has more than they?" Referring to the civil rights bill, he declared: "The more the Federal Government has attempted to legislate morality, the more it actually has incited hatreds and violence...
...Denver Post's new employee soon showed he could deftly lampoon such American practices as commercialized sports TV. Embedded in each Oliphant panel is a kind of sub-cartoon featuring a penguin called Punk. Punk's antics lured even children to the Advertiser's editorial page. They may well do the same in Denver, where they are already earning a reputation as "Oliphant jokes...
Gentle Restriction. The Republican-oriented Post has pledged Oliphant the same within-bounds latitude that Democrat Conrad enjoyed. "He's not allowed to contradict editorial policy," said Editorial Page Editor Mort Stern, "but he's within broad limits. It's never a question of 'do this.' " Cartoonist Oliphant is not likely to chafe at this gentle restriction. The Post endorsed Kennedy in 1960 and will back Johnson this year; Oliphant's attitudes are similar. "I tend to lean Democratic now," he said. "But I don't believe a cartoonist should come...
...boyish, lean Texan, now 38, is thus the most relentless experimenter in U.S. art. Experiment has led him to make much coy or trashy art, but also it has eventually led him to such original and important work as Tracer (opposite page). He won the Venice Biennale this summer, and his works are now as well known in London and Tokyo as in New York. He and his friend Jasper Johns are the leading painters of their generation...