Word: turtleback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Triumph on Turtleback. Vicky, a refugee from Naziism, landed in Britain 21 years ago. He spoke no English, faced an even more formidable obstacle for a car toonist: he was baffled by British humor. By reading and rereading Alice in Wonderland, he rode (as one colleague says) to "his conquest of Fleet Street on the back of the Mock Turtle." In 1941, Alice-sized (5 ft. 3 in., 120 Ibs.) Vicky landed his first successful newspaper job with London's News Chronicle. After twelve years he quit because an editor refused to run one of his cartoons. Says Vicky...