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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attention by his work for Punch, where the satiric ideas of Editor Malcolm Muggeridge often guide the Illingworth hand. A recent Illingworth-Muggeridge view of British politics showed Prime Minister Eden and Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell, both dressed as Nero, saying to each other: "I can fiddle a damned sight better than you." Other favorite targets have included Eisenhower, Bulganin and Khrushchev. In his latest cartoon on John Foster Dulles, Illingworth wasted no words in a biting, uncaptioned comment on the Secretary of State at work...
...national pastime with Salute to Baseball, which made a couple of daring moves by putting Yogi Berra in a ballet from the Broadway hit, Damn Yankees (he uneasily swung a bat while dancers pranced about him), and Molly Goldberg in a locker room (she clucked at the sight of baseball spikes: "Look at the poor boys' shoes-the nails are coming through the soles...
Stevenson must convince the American voters that moderation is neither a political strategy nor a means of dodging embarrassing questions. In emphasizing the complexities of the situation he must not lose sight of the final goal--racial integration...
...went on to serve as a civilian in Army intelligence during the war. There, his liberal politics stirred up official antagonism. As a civilian, he had commanded a number of Army officers, but when the Army finally drafted him, he was ranked as a private. Disturbed by the sight of a private bossing officers, his superiors ordered him to wear civilian clothes. Schlesinger apparently enjoys joking about the incident; his friends, however, feel the rank of private was grossly unjust and suggest that humor masks his real embarrassment...
...Pacific. He was air-operations officer for the Twelfth Air Force under Jimmy Doolittle in the North African campaign. Of his service in North Africa, General Dwight Eisenhower later wrote: "[He] so impressed me with his alertness, grasp of problems, and personality that I never thereafter lost sight of him." In 1944 he became Arnold's chief of staff in the Twentieth Air Force, helped direct the unprecedented, long range B-29 raids, including the first A-bomb drops on Japan...