"When you're asked a Parliamentary question d'you suppose you're given the answer beforehand?"
1959 Stock Code: 66934
On 2 November 1959, Charles Van Doren admitted to cheating on American quiz show Twenty One by being given the answers in advance. The cartoons and illustrations of Nicolas Bentley (1907-1978) were part of the warp and weft of English popular culture in the 1950s and 60s. Never savage, though often waspishly accurate and exuding an urbane air of amusement at the foibles of his fellows, Bentley's work was familiar to the public from a wide variety of publications. Between 1952 and 1954 he drew regular cartoons for the weekly Time and Tide, and after that for the daily News Chronicle. Between 1958 and 1962 he drew topical cartoons for the Daily Mail under the title "Watch My Line." He also drew many portraits, in black and white line, of famous people, for various papers, including over sixty for the Sunday Telegraph, which began publication in February 1961.
Description
Sheet size: 191 x 139 mm.
Illustrations
Pen and ink and blue pencil crayon on wove paper.
Condition
Stamped on verso for publication in the Daily Mail, 5 Nov 1959.
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