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Title: Drawing the country's mood: '... a drawing can pierce the emotional heart of a story deeper than the most gifted verbal lapidaries.'.(Journalist's Trade)
Author: Jeff Danziger
Publication: Nieman Reports (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 2004
Publisher: Harvard University, Nieman Foundation
Volume: 58 Issue: 4 Page: 42(2)Distributed by Thompson Gale

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I'll take advantage of this forum to put an instructive, but slightly sad story, into the annuls of journalism and cartoondom. There is in a newspaper life very little memorabilia, things one can frame for the wall or make into lamps later on. I knew a man at The Denver Post who retired after 30 years of daily copychopping, and he said all he had was a linotype slug of his first byline that one of the compositors had given him. A friend at The Washington Post told me he had nicked one of Herblock's India ink bottles, and he could get me one, too. I passed but now I wish I had said yes. In the...