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Joseph Stalin last week congratulated Britain's home fleet on sinking the 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst (see above). Next day, Moscow's Red Star published a cartoon showing a forlorn Scharnhorst sailor disappearing into the sea. In the foreground frenetic Propaganda Minister Goebbels shouts into a microphone: "Germans, we won a great victory. The German underseas fleet has increased in one stroke by 26,000 tons...
...Young, along with John Reed, Max Eastman and Floyd Dell, founded the leftist and pacifist Masses. When the U.S. got into World War I, his most famous cartoon, the savage Having Their Fling, helped put Art and colleagues on trial for sedition, a capital crime. For seven days & nights during that trial, Max Eastman could not sleep a wink...
Thursday. Principal Herbert W. Smith of Chicago's Francis W. Parker School (375 children, all ages) pooh-poohed the Post Office, testified he had found such words as "whore" in Shakespeare, "sono-va-bitch" in the Chicago Tribune. He looked at an Esquire cartoon in which a harem beauty with a "Happy Birthday" tag on her ankle approaches two Yanks in the desert. Says one Yank to the other...
...American Scene was under ludicrous attack again last week. Cartoonist Whitney Darrow Jr., for ten years a comic ornament to The New Yorker, published his first collection of drawings, You're Sitting on my Eyelashes (Random House; $2.50). In the title cartoon a raucously artificial brunette addressed a startled gentleman who had just taken her seat at the movies...
Most of Topaze's effectiveness is due to the wisecracky sayings of two simply drawn cartoon characters who appear in the magazine regularly and through whom Publisher Délano voices his own opinions. One is a bearded, elongated intellectual known as "Professor Topaze." The other is a shoeless, runty, ragged but usually grinning oaf called "Juan Verdejo." He represents Chile's lower classes, is so well known that all over Chile his name has come to be used much as "John Q. Public" is used...