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Posted on 09/25/2004 11:47:36 PM PDT by snippy_about_it
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 Despite his international reputation as one of the most famous children’s authors of the twentieth century, Theodor Seuss Geisel, was known to millions of readers simply as ‘Dr Seuss’. However it is a little known fact that before he created some of his most memorable characters, such as the Cat in the Hat and the Grinch, Dr. Seuss executed a series of political cartoons during the Second World War for a short lived daily newspaper entitled ‘PM’. Short-lived, because the editor of New York based publication Ralph Ingersoll was determined that the paper have a truly independent voice and therefore did not feature advertising material of any kind. Dr. Seuss began drawing for the paper from the beginning of 1941, several months before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor (on December 7th of that year). Like Ingersoll, Dr. Seuss was concerned by the activities of the ‘America First’ movement, who entreated that America not become involved with the European conflict, in particular their high-profile spokesman, the famous aviator Charles Lindbergh. Just as Dr. Seuss employed a menagerie of animals in his picture books, so Seuss depicted the ‘America First' movement as an ostrich, burying its head in the sand. Snails carry American war-aid to Britain and Japanese alley cats attack an Uncle Sam eagle. Despite the fact that Dr. Seuss later remarked that he thought his cartoons to be “rather shoddy” art, they demonstrate his sense of fair play and his abhorrence of Fascism and bigotry, themes which he redressed in subtle ways when illustrating his famous stories published in the 1950s. Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904-1991) was a life-long cartoonist: in high school in Springfield, Massachusetts; in college at Dartmouth (Class of 1925); as an adman in New York City before World War II; in his many children's books, beginning with To Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street (1937). Because of the fame of his children's books (and because we often misunderstand these books) and because his political cartoons have remained largely unknown, we do not think of Dr. Seuss as a political cartoonist. But for two years, 1941-1943, he was the chief editorial cartoonist for the New York newspaper PM (1940-1948), and for that journal he drew over 400 editorial cartoons.   The Dr. Seuss Collection in the Mandeville Special Collections Library at the University of California, San Diego, contains the original drawings and/or newspaper clippings of all of these cartoons. This website makes these cartoons available to all internet users. The cartoons have been scanned from the original newspaper clippings in the UCSD collection.   Dr. Seuss Goes to War by historian Richard H. Minear (The New Press, 1999) reproduced some two hundred of the PM cartoons. That means that two hundred of the cartoons available here have received no airing or study since their original appearance in PM. The cartoons Dr. Seuss published in other journals are even less known; there is no mention of them in Dr. Seuss Goes to War. Dr. Seuss also drew a set of war bonds "cartoons" which appeared in many newspapers as well as in PM. They are the following:           In Dr. Seuss & Mr. Geisel: A Biography (Random House, 1995; p 100), Judith and Neil Morgan recount the story of how Dr. Seuss and PM joined forces in 1941: Ted [Dr. Seuss] was haunted by the war in Europe, and one evening in Manhattan he showed an editorial cartoon he had drawn to his friend Zinny Vanderlip Schoales, the brilliant, hard-drinking intellectual.... She had joined the patrician liberal Ralph Ingersoll when he launched the tabloid newspaper PM in New York with the backing of Marshall Field III. Zinny took Ted's cartoon to Ingersoll and PM published it on January 30, 1941...       |
Good morning EGC.
Good morning Mayor. I was "praising the Lord" each time our plane landed safely!
Thanks for the XP SP2 update. I'll keep holding off.
Thanks for our Sunday Josh Groban song.
It was news to me too. I found it about a month ago while searching for something else for the Foxhole. I was surprised.
There are four hundred of them out there. It is easy to see what his political leanings were. :-)
LOL. We were away too but at least looked in once a day. Did you have a good time?
Not at all. I went for simulator flight training. Four days of H*ll!
Another great historical story about a guy named "Ted". ;^)
This was a very "kuwl" read . . . who would of thought? I might be wrong but it seems there were more cartoons attributed to the enemy (back then) then there are today.
Had a wonderful trip to Miami and actually caught some good weather between storms. The keynote speaker was Donna Shalala, PhD (Clinton's H&HS Sec.). You'd never know she was a democrat . . . she brought the house down when she said the Kerry camp is wrong and that there absolutely must be tort reform in America if we're going to save the healthcare system. I find these "tech" conferences are about 50/50 pubbie/demons so while there are some brilliant tech minds present they also can be "emotionally retarded".
Golfing the "Blue Monster" (Doral CC) will be one of the most memorable golf experiences of my life. It's home for the Ford Championship, at 7,125 yards from the tournement tees and with an abundance of formidable bunkers, length and finesse are needed to score. I battled the wind quite often and finished with a 84. But this course is so beautiful you almost don't care about the scoring.
Number 18 is ranked as one of the top 100 holes in the world. Check it out . . .
Sam, if it's any consolation (to your working today on water proofing the deck), when I got back from Florida Thurs. evening I not only had to go to work the next day but also had to prepare a report on my findings and recommendations. Do you know how hard that is to do when one's mind is still on the "Blue Monster"? Don't answer that! ;^)
OH! One final thing. Guess who was sitting a couple of rows ahead of me on my return flight? John Podesto (Clintoon's final WH CO Staff). I was so tempted to talk to him but he always had an expression on his face that looked like he just swallowed a turd. So I thought best just to let it go.
Anyway, hope this isn't too long winded . . . glad you guys made it back and I look forward to picking your brains on best site seeing tours when we go to Richmond, VA in Spring '05.
Lets see now, Private SNAFU was a series of animated shorts that ended up being produced by Warners Brothers. Dr. Suesas wrote the storylines and Warner Bros did the animation.
A list of the shorts are as follows:
1943:
Coming Snafu
Gripes
Spies
The Goldbrick
The Infantry Blues
Fighting tools
The Home Front
Rumors
1944:
Booby Traps
Snafuperman
Private Snafu Vs. Malaria Mike
A Lecture On Camouflage
Gas
The Chow Hound
Censored
Outpost
Pay Day
Target: Snafu
The Three Brothers
1945:
In the Aleutians
It's Murder She Says
Hot Spot
Operation: Snafu
No Buddy Atoll
Unreleased:
Coming Home
Secrets of the Caribbean
List courtesy of...
http://www.fact-index.com/l/li/list_of_private_snafu_shorts.html
Also see this link for a brief explanation of the Private Snafu series.
http://www.fact-index.com/p/pr/private_snafu.html
It appears that the Private SNAFU series of shorts is available on DVD from a variety of sources on the net
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Good afternoon Victoria.
Beautiful golf course. I don't golf but I'm guessing your score was pretty good. Looks like you were surrounded by ex-clintonites. LOL.
Thanks alfa6. You do good research :-)
I guess since it's serious business for you it would be heck but for me it sounds like fun in a simulator!
It was, kinda. But thinking about the reality of the left engine on fire 200 feet up after takeoff is sobering. It was constant scenarios that are just too dangerous or risky to practice in a real airplane. I pray daily that I never have to face any of them for real.
Present!
Today's classic warship, USS Hetman (SP-1150)
Greenpoint class small motorboat
Displacement. 20 t.
lenght. 60'
Beam. 10'
Draft. 22"
Apeed. 28 k.
Armament. 1 3-pdr.
USS Hetman, a small motor boat, was built in 1917 by Greenpoint Basin & Construction Co., Greenpoint, Long Island, for the Russian Government, but purchased by the Navy from the builder in August 1917. Originally delegated simply Greenpoint #277, her name was changed to Hetman and she commissioned 24 October 1917, Chief Boatswain Mate C. A. Dale, USNRF, commanding.
Assigned to the 3d Naval District, Hetman was used as a patrol boat in New York harbor until her departure for Miami 20 November 1917. Travelling the inland route, she arrived Beaufort, N.C., 30 November and Naval Station, Miami, Fla., 15 December. There Hetman took up duties which consisted of towing disabled seaplanes in Biscayne Bay and occasionally assisting in salvage work.
Taken to Key West Naval Station after the close of the war, Hetman was offered for sale in May 1919, and finally sold to C. J. Haskell of New York City 1 March 1921.
Fate unknown.
"First to Fight." A group of U.S. Marines. US Marine Corps Recruiting Publicity Bureau.
National Archives photo
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