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...last fortnight's issue went too far for Pentagon Building kibitzers. One cartoon showed a two-star general, breakfasting in bed. Another, in which an emaciated corporal pointed at a well-fed Army cook, had the caption: "He still insists he doesn't use saltpeter." The editorial gently poked a particularly sensitive sacred cow, the American Legion (". . . Men . . . joined the Legion to apply pressure to get things done politically...
...during the last Presidency of Arturo Alessandri, known as "The Lion," Topaze printed a cartoon showing a decrepit, mangy old lion being tamed by Alessandri's most despised political rival. Said Délano: "Who ever heard of referring to a President as a lion?" Alessandri, like Montero, became a laughingstock...
...assistants (Topaze now is put out by a staff of four writers, four cartoonists, who work one day a week, are highly paid), Délano was busy with a motion picture and had no time for publishing. He might have skipped an issue. Instead he whipped off a cartoon for the cover, printed half the inside pages solid black, left half blank, at the bottom of each printed the caption: "Hold up to the sunlight for five minutes and you will see figures of political significance." Half of Topaze's readers that week claimed to see something...
Disney Technique. Movie audiences will see in Victory an odd blending of 1) pure Disney cartoon fun, 2) the action, draughtsmanship and color of his feature-length films, 3) superbly contrived maps and animated diagrams, 4) perhaps too much of Seversky in a handsome office, driving home his arguments...
After a brief dedication to the late Brigadier General "Billy" Mitchell, evangelist and martyr of the air-power cause (who would have given his right arm for a movie like Victory to carry his message to the people), the film swings into a lighthearted cartoon history of aviation, starting in 1903 with the Wright Brothers' first powered flight (12 seconds...