Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Family Man. Though the Sun bills Norris as a "political" cartoonist, he uses his pen and eye more for mild satire on the passing Canadian social scene. He feels that "symbolism, or worlds with faces and hairy guys labeled 'war,' are not my line." An admirer of famed London Daily Express Cartoonist Carl Giles (TIME, Dec. 11, 1950), Norris shows Giles's influence in his own work. Norris populates his world with shy, baffled citizens, harried housewives, fiercely determined children. He lampoons everything from Canada's first native-born Governor General and the laws against colored...
Valeria Valero, the Italian girl shown above against an Alpino background, wants to be his pen pal. It seems that an American named Smith knew her in Oslo last summer and told her he went to Harvard...
Historic Decision. With scarcely a pause for breath, Harry Truman shattered the thought. He turned from his typed script and read hurriedly from a sheet on which he had written with a pen a historic paragraph...
...painter of glossy portraits (Presidents Harding and Coolidge, Benito Mussolini) and illustrations (the memorable World War I "Fight or Buy Bonds" posters); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Once, asked to do a series of paintings showing the evolution of the American girl, whom he had long glorified with pen and brush, Christy begged off: "Gosh! She's never evoluted . . . same old girl she always has been...
Finger Writer. A ballpoint pen that fits over the index finger has been invented by R. L. Fuerst, a German refugee who fled from Hitler to Spain, then to China, then to the U.S. when the Communists started moving in. He will put it on sale in the spring, has already lined up orders for nearly 90,000. Price...