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Robinson's first published cartoon was a drawing of a professor gravely examining birds' footprints in the sand, while a fascinated bird followed the strange human track. He produced a mad catalogue of patched-together devices constructed on such engineering principles as this: "The strength of a piece of string, as of a chain, lies in its weakest part, and surely it is wisdom to cut this out and tie in a stronger piece." In 1934 London's Ideal Homes Exhibition included one solemn Robinson exhibit which proved a sensation: a carefully constructed, full-size Robinson house...
...arranging the 2,000 in order. Many of the estimated 40,000 he has drawn are scattered. Presidents from McKinley to Franklin Roosevelt, lesser statesmen, tycoons have befriended him, complimented him, collected his originals-which he gives away for the asking, never sells. Though never syndicated, his cartoons have been widely reprinted. Fellow craftsmen dedicated their cartoons to him on his 70th birthday. This year his cartoon "But Where Is the Boat Going?"-showing Congress, the President, McNutt, Hershey, Lewis, Green and Murray at sea in a "manpower" lifeboat, won the Pulitzer Prize...
Kentucky-born Cliff Berryman went to Washington when he was 17, as a protege of Kentucky's Senator Joe Blackburn who had admired his youthful talent. Earning his living as patent office messenger, he got his art education "for 20? a week" by copying the political cartoons in Puck and Judge. He sold his first cartoon to the Washington Post in 1889, got a regular job there two years later. In 1907 he switched to the Star, where his daily front-page cartoon remained a Washington landmark until...
...that year his sports-cartoonist son Jim, then 33, filled in for him. Now father & son share the front-page spot, Cliff four times a week, Jim three. Few readers can tell their work apart. So far as they know, they are the only father-son team in U.S. cartoon history...
Some weeks ago, when the Allies were still stalled in Normandy, air-force joke-smiths circulated a cartoon entitled "This Too?"-depicting a couple of Mosquito bombers towing tanks across a wheat field. A junior officer on Coningham's staff scrutinized the cartoon, grinned, said: "We'd better not show it to the chief. He'd want...