Give up? A new cartoon collection by Whitney Darrow, Jr. (August 22, 1909 – August 10, 1999) . Darrow was born in Princeton, New Jersey, where his father Whitney Darrow was founding director of Princeton University Press. Darrow grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, where he attended Greenwich High School. He graduated in 1931 from Princeton University, where he wrote humor for the Daily Princeton and was art director for the Princeton Tiger Magazine. He honed his craft at Art Student League of New York with instructors including painter Thomas Hart Benton. In his early 20s began selling cartoons to Judge, Life and College Humor. As a 24-year-old in 1933, he sold his first cartoon to The New Yorker, while the magazine, which had been founded in 1925, was still in its infancy. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1966.
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