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These startling statistics were headlined last week by the newspaper PM, which stated that it backed them with a study made by OPA. Run with a cartoon showing a stout gentleman in a frock coat with an American flag in one hand and a bag of money in the other, the figures purported to be a damning indictment of the U.S. business profiteer...
Education for Death is Walt Disney's distillation of Ziemer's survey to a nine-minute cartoon-a sort of Pinocchio in reverse. Little Hans is educated into a heiling, marching puppet, at last becomes a wooden cross marker in a vast military cemetery. Funniest bit: a Nazified fairy tale, in which the handsome, armored Prince (Hitler) wakes the rotund, snoozing Princess (Germany) with a kiss, lugs her away on a white horse to a boozy version of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries. Most pointed bit: little Hans is punished for sympathizing with a fabled rabbit...
...soapy The O'Neills, who sired Malarkey with Griggs last spring in a pet over the sameness of radio's patriotic messages. The Office of War Information decided last fortnight that Malarkey was sufficiently obnoxious to deserve a wider audience. He will soon be drawn as a cartoon character, under OWI auspices...
Died. Charles Henry ("Bill") Sykes, 60, editorial cartoonist of Philadelphia's Evening Public Ledger from its birth (1914) to its death (last January), onetime cartoonist for the old Life magazine; of a heart attack; in Cynwyd, Pa. William Jennings Bryan once asked him for an original cartoon Sykes had drawn of him; Sykes sent it, with a note: "Cartoonists all over the country secretly admire you . . . because without you our work would be much more difficult...
...This month readers were discovering a new wrinkle in literary digestion. The Book-of-the-Month Club announced a new literary short cut for those who wish to read books, but not whole books. Through King Features Syndicate, the Club will release its best-sellers in the form of cartoon strips: 24-30 cartooned installments per novel, with 500 words of text under each strip (about one-fifteenth of the published novel). The first cartoonovel is Anna Segher's The Seventh Cross, story of an escape from a Nazi concentration camp...