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...Missouri, a politician once told a staffer of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "I could answer your editorials, but what can you 'do with that guy who draws cartoons?'' That guy is lean (5 ft. 11½ in., 126 Ibs.) trimly tailored Daniel R. Fitzpatrick, 62, whose drawings in broad charcoal-black strokes have probably been more widely reprinted in newspapers and magazines than any other editorial cartoonist in the U.S. This week, with explanatory notes by "Fitz," the best of his cartoon commentary on the last three decades of U.S. history was published for the first...
...disadvantage. Unlike other Communist papers, such as France's L'Humanité and London's Worker, the Manhattan Worker had no staff correspondent filing regularly from the Reds' Far Eastern camps. Last week the Worker finally caught up; Correspondent Joseph Starobin, a Worker staffer for ten years and a Communist Party member for as long as anyone could recall, became the first U.S. newsman to get behind enemy lines. Joe Starobin, a U.S. citizen who went abroad more than two years ago and recently attended Red China's Peiping peace conference, went from Red China...
...Press Special Correspondent Don Whitehead, 45, for his 4,400-word story on Presidentelect Eisenhower's secret trip to Korea. Correspondent Whitehead, one of the six newsmen to accompany Ike, and a previous Pulitzer winner for his reporting of the Korean war in 1951, has been an A.P. staffer for the last 18 years. If For local reporting under deadline pressure, the Providence (R.I.) Journal and Evening Bulletin, for coverage of the chase and capture of a bank robber. The city desk picked up the $51,000 robbery on the police radio, dispatched its own two-way radio cars...
...story, it solemnly reported that its old campus rival, the Lampoon, had given the Russians its ibis, the sacred bird that has stood on the Lampoon roof for 43 years-off & on. But as everyone knew, it was all a hoax, perpetrated by the Crimson itself. Cried one Lampoon staffer, as he entered negotiations to get his bird back: "The Crimson men have no imagination. This was just addleheaded vandalism...
...Protest. Next day Editor Dakin (once a staffer on Manhattan's late, pinko PM) called in Moon and fired him himself. "I pointed out that the evidence against me was a little flimsy," said Moon, "and could easily be answered. Dakin just said that firing me would take the pressure off Collier's." If he was being fired for that reason only, Moon wanted a letter saying so. Wrote Dakin: "We have been eminently satisfied with your work in the fiction department." Moon insists that he has never been a Communist, that his name was not authorized...