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Daniel Fitzpatrick, 50, worked up into cartooning the hard way. Born in the industrial city of Superior, Wis., he was kicked out of high school at 16 because he spent his time drawing instead of studying algebra and history. In Chicago he found he could make money turning out comic strips for the Chicago Evening News at $1 apiece. Before he was 21 the Evening News had hired him to do front page cartoons. A year later he heard that the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's cartoonist had quit, got the job, started out with a cartoon attacking...
...write as tenderly about his own children (see his Rainy Day} as any other man living. Nash does most of his writing, however, in the guise of a sensitive prune. He speaks for the cartoon 20th-century American male-the subway-ridden goofus whose personality is deeply engraved on his cigaret lighter, and whose most ambitious ethical concept is "if it's trite, it's right." Nash knows his American civilization, and he can write about it like an efficiency expert in baggy pants. His light verse is a remarkable rhetorical invention. Where McCord, a traditionalist, makes...
Last week their first batch of twelve anti-sabotage posters was in use. Each had a sharply pointed Hungerford cartoon, an admonitory paragraph by Sherman, ended with the slogan: "You are a production soldier . . . America's first line of defense is here." Sample: A dope in overalls talking his head off while Hitler...
...seem to be very-sympathetic and I didn't want them to have to carry the column when they didn't want to." One such paper was the Tyler (Tex.) morning Telegraph, which last month dropped its Johnson column, explained why in an editorial and cartoon (see cut, p. 38). Said the Telegraph: "The General . . . has allowed his personal animosity for President Roosevelt to cause him to oppose every defense measure undertaken by the present administration without regard to fact or expert opinion...
...names of ten members of the Board of Overseers are mentioned in the article, which implies that these men have told Conant what to say. A cartoon of the president, picturing him as digging a grave for American youth is also included...