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Apparently war, like nature, may sometimes imitate art. While browsing through British Admiralty files for historical background on the self-propelled two-man torpedo, I came across this 1912 cartoon. Alsop's Ale (the hero's fuel) was Britain's favorite brew in 1912-as well known as Bass is today. The resemblance between Cartoonist Quick's conception and the real two-man article of today (TIME, May 1) is uncanny...
...dust, Eve from one of his ribs, could they have had navels? The question is almost as old as Adam. North Carolina's Congressman Carl Thomas Durham and his House Military Affairs subcommittee are not sure of the answer: they have attacked as Communist a pamphlet containing a cartoon which suggests that Adam & Eve did have navels. The cartoon (TIME, Jan. 31) is in The Races of Mankind (400,000 copies distributed), a 10? popularization of currently accepted scientific views about race which argues that any race of mankind is just as capable as any other...
Clifford K. Berryman, Washington (D.C.) Evening Star cartoonist, for But Where Is The Boat Going? - a biting cartoon on the manpower-mobilization muddle...
...popeyed peon withdrawing a knife from the neck of a screaming woman. In Collision Between a Streetcar and a Hearse, a small, gay trolley car was seen crashing into a funeral cart, stopping just short of running over a corpse in the splintered coffin. Zapatista Deathshead, a grisly political cartoon, chronicles Zapata's rebellion against Diaz (1910). There were revolting monstrosities, dire prophecies of the end of the world, dances of death, images of delirium. For in the main José Posada addressed an illiterate people who could best be reached with the imagery of sensational violence...
...cartoon's 22 sq. in., Publisher Patterson satisfactorily absolved himself and his fellows from the charge of pandering, and put their millions of readers in the delightfully ticklish spot of appearing to demand what a reluctant press was forced to give them...