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...part. Four hours of preparation, four hours of execution go into each cartoon. Arriving at his cluttered Post-Dispatch office about 10 in the morning, Mauldin reads the freshly printed city edition for the current news. Within the hour, he has submitted, half anxiously, half belligerently, a rough pencil sketch of his idea to Editorial Page Editor Robert Lasch. The two have a smooth working relation. "Bob," says Mauldin, "is like a good cop, there to protect you, not to arrest you." Mauldin is given unusual leeway in his work; the paper has never asked him to come...
...took over a year to finish it: long before brush was put to canvas, he did sketch after sketch of Frost's hands, his head, his posture. "I can't explain it very well," Chapin once said, "but it is the symbolic human gesture that interests me -not the gesture of hands and feet but the carriage of the human body and the human head." Here, the carriage is erect, proud, quietly intense, with wisdom coiled inside like a spring...
...Titian," says he, "is that he was Titian." In his drawings, Lebrun aims first for speed, in order to get his whole vision down before it shreds apart in his mind. He starts with black, white and grey, which he regards as the colors of memory. When the first sketch is finished, it can be reworked indefinitely. Gradually the work takes on depth, as if it had been built up layer upon layer...
...moods are as unpredictable as his talent is unlimited. He can whisk off a sketch on something that seems little bigger than a postage stamp, and it will turn out to be almost exactly in scale. He has few close friends, and though he says he enjoys having people around to talk to, it is always a rather unilateral affair "Talking stimulates," he once explained. "You develop ideas when you have an audience. And anyway, you don't have to listen to what the others say." As for money -here the master is even more impossible...
...flooded with rumors about an imminent attempt at space flight. Before the Vostok flight, the Moscow correspondent for the London Daily Worker cabled his paper that the cosmonaut son of a famous Soviet airplane designer had orbited the earth three times and landed with serious injuries. The London Daily Sketch identified him as Gennady Mikhailov. Soviet authorities promptly denied both reports. But the rumors continued, and the papers stuck to their stories...