Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George W. Spayth scrapped a career as an editorial and features cartoonist (Milwaukee News, Washington Times, Houston Chronicle), borrowed $1,500 on an insurance policy, and started a weekly in Dunellen, N.J. With a fancy for hard work and a flair for the outlandish, Publisher Spayth has doggedly built his investment into three small Jersey weeklies and a shopping-news, this year will gross some...
Painter Ollie Harrington, who earns his living as a cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Courier and other Negro newspapers, enjoys the freedom to travel. "I like to swim and ski and deep-sea fish, all strictly restricted in the U.S. Here I can step into my car and drive wherever I like, certain that at the end of the day I will find a good hotel and a good restaurant, and that I can sit down without attracting the slightest attention, or exciting curiosity. In Sweden, that's still another matter; they run after you there. I can do without...
Scramble of the Experts. The U.S. took up contract bridge with wild and alarming enthusiasm. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, newspapers reported bridge divorces, bridge assault-and-battery cases, even bridge deaths. Cartoonist H. T. Webster recorded bridge players' foibles in a long and memorable series. A North Carolina addict swore to shoot the next man who dealt him a bad hand, dealt himself a bust-and promptly shot himself to death. In Kansas City, Mo. in 1929, Housewife Myrtle Bennett committed one of the decade's most headlined homicides by shooting her husband after...
Died. Olaf Gulbransson, 85, snub-nosed, sybaritic cartoonist for Germany's satirical weekly Simplicissimus since 1902 ; of a stroke; at his home overlooking Te-gernsee, West Germany. Eccentric (at work he often wore only a loincloth), Norwegian-born Gulbransson gained world repute for his boldly contoured caricatures. He continued to work for Simplicissimus even after (in 1933) it became a Nazi-run organ, once gave the political artist's classic explanation: "I hate them as much as you do, but what's the use fighting them...
...caricature cruel? Many a reader of Paris' left-wing daily Combat (circ. 58,000) complains that Staff Cartoonist Jean Pinatel's banana-nosed version of Premier Charles de Gaulle is a clear case of proboscis profaned. Last week Pinatel snapped back at his critics. Beside an amiable, big-nosed De Gaulle, Pinatel drew an evil-eyed, small-nosed De Gaulle, then offered his defense...