THE man on the cover of this week's TIME once painted a TIME cover himself. The time was World War II, and the subject was Cartoonist Bill Mauldin's famed weary dogface, Willie. Now, after a few years of finding himself, Mauldin at 39 is the most promising political cartoonist on the U.S. scene. TIME Cover Artist Henry Koerner journeyed to St. Louis to spend a fortnight getting an artist's impression of a fellow artist (see cut.)
For a man who makes his point by inviting a smile, Cover Subject Mauldin has a sober view of his trade. He thinks that "the American...
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