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Lean and leisurely John Tinney McCutcheon was crowding his deadline. His mind and drawing board were blank, and the bulldog edition over at the Chicago Tribune would wait just so long. Outside his studio window, there was a promise of fall in the hazy September air. He fell to daydreaming . . . on such a smoky afternoon, back home in Indiana, a boy might gaze at a cornfield studded with tattered golden shocks, and see them turn into Indian tepees. Idly he began to sketch. When the Tribune messenger arrived, he had finished his greatest cartoon. That was 39 years...
Complained the New York Daily News: "The London newspapers are daily scooping the world, enjoying breaks on stories of from six hours to as many days." Columnist-Radio Commentator Cal Tinney complained that the North Africa war was being fought "in a journalistic vacuum...
...newspaper joined the outcry: said Amazonian Pundit Dorothy Thompson: "To say [that such censorship is necessary] is tantamount to claiming that the most profound issues of this war may not be publicly discussed, or if publicly discussed, must be confined within the United States." Said Columnist-Radio Commentator Cal Tinney: Reasonable censorship of war news to prevent the enemy from receiving advantage is acceptable to everyone. Censorship of opinion is sabotage of the Four Freedoms...
...Comedian Frank Tinney: "He fertilizes the most sterile wheeze with the persuasive manures of his unctuous manner, and makes it blossom with laughter unabashed...
Died. Frank Tinney, 62, star of oldtime Ziegfeld and Earl Carroll revues, during the early '20s one of Broadway's three leading blackface comedians (the other two: Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor); in poverty, at Northport...