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...Every day is packed with drama down here," Cobb said. "If we spot a kid with rheumatic heart disease, then we have the problem of who is going to pay for treatments? Who is going to pay for X-rays? And who is going to take him to the hospital to get them...
Caniff's dear, dead A.P. days will never be beyond recall. In the artists' bullpen on Madison Avenue, where Alfred Gerald Caplin (now Al Capp, creator of Li'l Abner) was also fenced in, Caniff launched a "kid strip" called Dickie Dare. A.P. artists got $60 to $85 a week and the greenest hand had to block out "the damn crossword puzzles." "They wouldn't even tell us how many papers were using our stuff," Caniff complains. "They were afraid we'd get big ideas...
...already in the $75,000-a-year class as a freelancer, and as art director of an advertising agency, snub-nosed Paul Rand still looks very much like the kid who spent his evenings studying commercial art at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute. He has never stopped studying, and he insists that Critic Roger Fry, Novelist André Malraux and Philosopher John Dewey have taught him a lot about the uses of art, "although I don't understand them half the time...
Three times in one practice session last week, deadeye Andy Prillip, one of Illinois' famed Whiz Kids, dribbled down the floor and then passed up an easy shot at the basket. Instead he tossed the ball to Whiz Kid Jack Smiley. Phillip explained, with a grin, "Smiley's wife and little boy are up in the balcony...
Against Pittsburgh last week the Whiz Kid guards-hefty Gene Vance and Papa Jack Smiley-bossed the backboards. Before they were replaced by substitutes, Andy Phillip hit for eight points and skinny Ken Menke got ten more. Down went Pittsburgh, 58-31, to become victim No. 3. Illinois was out to become the Big Nine's best again, but would have to get past Iowa and Wisconsin to make...