WWII CARTOONIST BILL MAULDIN DIES AT 81 NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) . Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin, who as a young Army rifleman during World War II gave newspaper readers back home a sardonic, foxhole-level view of the front with his drawings of weary, dogface GIs Willie and Joe, died Wednesday at 81. Mauldin died at a nursing home of complications from Alzheimer's disease, including pneumonia, said Andy Mauldin, one of his seven sons. ``It's really good that he's not suffering anymore,'' he said. ``He had a terrible struggle.'' Mauldin was one of the pre-eminent editorial cartoonists of the 20th...