For 23 years, one of the most popular features in Lord Beaverbrook's Conservative London Evening Standard has been the pro-Labor political cartooning of David Low. Last week, in search of "a change of scene and atmosphere," Cartoonist Low quit the lively Standard to join Labor's dull and pedantic Daily Herald.
The Standard (circ. 892,829) has always given Low the widest possible freedom, even to lampooning Publisher Beaverbrook himself (TIME, Dec. 29, 1947). But in recent years bushy-browed Low had come to feel that the Standard was taking him too much for granted. When the...
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