Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That afternoon Churchill, who had just been ceremoniously saluted at home as an artist by Cartoonist Strube started out to paint. Four cars followed with newsmen and photographers. Churchill fled by motorboat and retired to his 15-room suite in the Grand Hotel. Next day he made amends by posing for bathing-suit photographs. (Observed Milan's weekly Oggi: "Churchill has very thin ankles, absolutely disproportionate to his weight . . . Nobody can say Churchill in a bathing suit is very attractive . . .") Then he made arrangements to go on a painting trip in a motorboat. It banged into a pier...
...Magnetic Method of Stretching Spaghetti (at the expense of Britain's face-lengthening austerity program) and H. M. Bateman's Tragedy at Wellington Barracks, a study in horror-struck faces as a butter-fingered guardsman on parade drops his rifle. It was dapper Australian-born Cartoonist Bateman who had started the whole thing in a speech to the Royal Society last February, declaring it was high time the British had a "National Academy of Humorous Art." Last week's show was a sort of test...
Died. Harold H. Knerr, 66, longtime King Features cartoonist (The Katzenjammer Kids, since 1913); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
...Youse. Readers admire Palooka because he is the kind of fellow a lot of them (including Cartoonist Fisher) would like to be. He is big, strong, good-looking and popular; his hefty right always triumphs, often over eye-gouging, foul-fighting opponents. He hobnobs with a lot of celebrities without getting stuck up. An inveterate name-dropper himself, stocky Cartoonist Fisher populates his strip with real people, e.g., Bing Crosby, Tom Clark, Jack Dempsey, and models many of his fictional characters on other celebrities. Humphrey Pennyworth, an engaging, potbellied giant, was inspired by Manhattan Restaurant-Man Toots Shor...
...American as ever, and as innocent as if he never had a man-to-man talk about life with Man-about-Manhattan Fisher. Palooka is still world's heavyweight champion, and with movies (26 so far), radio, testimonials, etc., is a champion moneymaker ($375,000 a year) for Cartoonist Fisher. Ham expects their friendship to continue for a long time. In due course, confided Fisher last week, he hopes to be godfather to "a little Joe Palooka...