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Paul Conrad dies at 86; Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist helped bring The Times to national prominence
Paul Conrad, whose fiercely confrontational editorial cartoons made him one of the leading political provocateurs of the second half of the 20th century and who helped push the Los Angeles Times to national prominence, has died. He was 86.
Conrad died...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Nick Williams, Abortion Issue, Human Interest, Wars and Interventions
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11/8/2011-Andy Rooney
Andy Rooney is my TV roll model, and he will be for the rest of my life. He joins the list of my other late, great roll models: Dr. Seuss, Sparky Schulz, Bill Mauldin, Doug Marlette, Jeff MacNelly, Tibor Gergely, H.A. Rey, Norman Rockwell, John Steinbeck,...Tags: Johnny Carson, Mark Twain, Paul Newman, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway
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Pulitzer Award Winning Cartoonist Bill Mauldin
KPLR11.comWilliam Henry "Bill" Mauldin was born on October 29, 1921 in Mountain Park, New Mexico. He took courses at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and at the age of 18 entered the army via the Arizona National Guard in 1940. "He liked the idea of working for...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Human Interest, Journalism
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The Opinion Department: Who We Are
Carolyn Lumsden (clumsden@courant.com) has been with The Courant since 1992 as an editorial writer, op-ed editor and now editorial page editor. She was previously a reporter for the Associated Press in Massachusetts and a copy editor for Random House....Tags: Education, New London (New London, Connecticut), Yale University, Norwich, Artists
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About Bob Englehart
The Hartford CourantBob Englehart was born November 7, 1945 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Influenced by children's book illustrators Tibor Gergely and H.A. Rey, he determined early in life to be an artist. Later, as a teenager, Bill Mauldin, Norman Rockwell, and the illustrators...Tags: Education, Fort Wayne (Allen, Indiana), Eastern Connecticut State University, Indiana University, Awards and Prizes
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Soldiers trade guns for sketch books
The world of America's soldiers come sharply into focus without the need for film clips, old newsreel footage or graphic photographs at the National Constitution Center's new exhibition, "Art of the American Soldier."
Soldiers swapped their guns for...Tags: Arts, World War I (1914-1918), Defense, World War II (1939-1945), Bob Hope
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The Bell Curve: Calmer moments in World War II
I was surfing through cable TV stations Wednesday, looking for a path to write about Veterans Day. I stumbled on "Hoosiers," a film based on the true story of five boys from the tiny Indiana farming community of Milan, who worked, played and bonded...Tags: Injuries and Wounds, Health and Medical Professionals, Armed Forces, Defense, Indiana Hoosiers
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Sidewalks: 1st-class cartoonist
Tribune NewspapersSo, I was standing in a line at a South Side post office when I got into a conversation with an older man who told me that he was there to buy a new stamp featuring his "hero," Bill Mauldin. "Did you ever hear of him?" the man said. "He was …" I...Tags: U.S. Postal Service, U.S. Army, Cartoons, Newspaper and Magazine, Entertainment
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Memorial Day Reading
McClatchy newspapersMemorial Day is May 25, an observance that honors the men and women who have fallen in battle while serving in the U.S. armed forces. Here's a sampling of books relative to that: • "We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from the Band of Brothers"...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Death, Cartoons, Armed Forces, Entertainment
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"Injun Summer"
Tribune staff reporterDeadlines roll around every day in the newspaper business, whether a writer or an artist is fired by an idea or not. One day in the early fall of 1907, cartoonist John T. McCutcheon found himself groping for inspiration for a drawing to fill his...Tags: Mark Twain, Chicago Jobs, Death, Cartoons, World War I (1914-1918)
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Moudry: ever the runner, even in Iraq
Staff Sgt. Christopher Moudry loved to run. But there's not much room in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle, so Moudry liked to stretch his legs when he emerged from his tank. A five-mile jaunt around the Army base in Taji, Iraq, was nothing for the one-time...Tags: Death, Armed Forces, Defense, Sports, World War II (1939-1945)
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For those 'doing the dying'
Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front By Todd DePastino Norton, 370 pages, $27.95 In 1945 Gen. George Patton threatened to ban the U.S. Armed Forces newspaper, The Stars and Stripes, from his 3rd Army ranks if it did not stop carrying cartoonist Bill Mauldin's...Tags: Ernie Pyle, Theodore Roosevelt, Death, World War I (1914-1918), Armed Forces
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