Both Szyk cartoons appeared in the New York newspaper PM, a reminder that once upon a time in America, publications like PM and Ken magazine proudly proclaimed their leftist politics in words and pictures.
He started drawing cartoons for the newspaper PM, inveighing against the Axis powers, isolationism, Lindbergh and Father Coughlin, the "radio priest".
In 1940, Mr. Hartford tried being a reporter for the New York newspaper PM, after putting up $100,000 to help get the paper started.
He was having a conversation about Geisel's cartoons for the newspaper PM with a faculty member, Richard Minear, the author of "Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel".
After the war he returned to New York, where he was an entertainment editor, sports editor and columnist for the newspaper PM and the New York editor of Down Beat.
He had been an editor at the left-leaning New York daily newspaper PM in the 1940s, but, like many friends and colleagues, turned from pro-labor, anti-Communist liberalism to neoconservatism.
In a 1940 article titled "Total War, Total Defense, Total Crisis," published in PM -- a newspaper begun in New York that year -- Ralph Ingersoll, the editor, wrote, "What American people have to realize is that Vogue magazine, which only a few years ago was very real, is now only a temporary illusion".
Weegee (who disparaged The Times as a paper for the "well-off Manhattan establishment") called Sammy's "the poor man's Stork Club" and wrote in the newspaper PM in 1944: "There's no cigaret girl — a vending machine puts out cigarets for a penny apiece.
By St. Clair McKelway The New Yorker, November 1, 1941 P. 11 We were abashed by the largesse of the newspaper PM, which has offered to pay the fares of half a dozen congressmen all the way to London and back so they can find out what's been going on over there.
Hemingway went with her, sending in dispatches for the newspaper PM, but in general he disliked China.
