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...drawing board last week in the Chicago Sun-Times (circ. 544,784), Pulitzer Prizewinning Cartoonist Jacob Burck, 49, was going over the proofs of a cartoon for next day's paper. It showed the grasping hand of Soviet power being squeezed open by rebellious satellite citizens as they desperately tried to escape (title: "Losing His Grip?"). Just as he was finishing with the proof, the phone rang. On the line was a reporter from the rival Chicago Daily News. He told Burck that the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service had just ordered him deported on the grounds that...
...matter of "expediency," and that he never attended closed party meetings. As to why he never became a citizen after taking out his first papers, Burck says: "I had been waiting in line a long time [for my final papers]. Suddenly I recalled that I had a cartoon to draw for the next day's editions." Staffers on the Sun-Times support his whimsical explanation, point out that Burck is a "real bohemian," disorganized in everything he does. Even his cartoons are always half finished until his editors "start putting the heat...
...made a little speech, remarked that he always liked the seat, because it was so close to the door and he could duck out when the going got hot. After his speech, Truman shook hands all around and moved ahead on his visitors' schedule. When a Washington Star cartoon showed him standing outside the White House fence with camera in hand, Tourist Truman said: "Well, I'd rather be on the outside looking in than on the inside looking...
After the Sabre. On the Quonset wall of a pingpong room at Kimpo airfield, a crudely drawn cartoon sums up the pilots' feelings about the Sabre jet and North American Aviation, Inc., the Los Angeles company that makes it. The cartoon shows a MIG pilot, closely pursued by an F-86, yelling "Break!" as he clambers out of his cockpit armed with a large paddle against a watery landing. The caption: "Look to North American for leadership...
...paces her in the last lap. There are some blithe tunes by Arthur Schwartz and Johnny Mercer, and the whole thing has been briskly staged by Charles (Lilt) Walters. Best sequence: an underwater dream ballet, in which Esther capers among the coral with Tom and Jerry, the animated-cartoon cat and mouse...