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...line on their Presidents, U. S. citizens have looked harder and oftener at political cartoons than at the editorial pages. Franklin D. Roosevelt was a caricaturist's "natural." But his cartoon character did not evolve overnight. At his nomination in 1932, top-flight Cartoonist "J. N. Ding" (Jay Norwood Darling) had already caught Roosevelt's cowcatcher chin and vaudeville grin. Added later were weightier jowls, up-jutting cigaret holder that make up the now-familiar Roosevelt caricature...
...coal-heaver in a Detroit power plant, finally, in desperation, applied for a job as a policeman. Just as he had been accepted for the force, NEA decided it liked some of his drawings, asked him to go to Cleveland, offered him a contract to do a cartoon a day. At first Jim Williams' cartoons had hard sledding. Irate Cleveland dowagers wrote letters to the Cleveland Press, complaining that nobody wanted to see pictures of a lot of dirty machinists. But when 100,000 Cleveland shopworkers threatened to boycott the paper if Williams' cartoons were withdrawn, Williams...
Like the boy in British Cartoonist Henry Bateman's cartoon, who went to prison for breathing hard on a glass case in the British Museum and returned, a decrepit old man, to breathe his defiant, dying breath on the same forbidden glass, John Seed did not give up his high resolve. Last fortnight he returned to college, strapped in a plaster cast from waist to shoulders. He spurned the university's offer to end the contest by giving him a clapper...
...outside journalistic community were entirely familiar with the habit of having candidates for the Crimson scout about at this season of the year for anything that would make a story, they might have treated the article in question in the light that was suggested by the cartoon and its presumably funny caption. However, the assumption seems to have been made that the article was seriously intended and, as such, it surely should have had some basis other than totally unfounded and perhaps joking rumer...
...whole affair would give me no concern if it affected no one other than the but of your cartoon and the subject of the article itself. The faculty is, no doubt, fair game for the Crimson, and I am sure your whole story was intended to be very amiable and flattering to me. You must realize, however, that the repercussions in the outside press from such a story might seriously embarrass one who holds a very important public office. My own views are so extreme that they are incompatible with political responsibility to an electorate that certainly holds quite different...