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Clare Briggs
Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930. Poems by Wilbur Nesbitt.
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He’s being given tools to help him run the place in 30-40 years.
Like it or not.Report
If he survives WW2.
(For that matter, I think the middle class clerks/ middle manager social strivers that make up the bulk of Briggs characters had a really hard time in the 1930s)Report
Yeah, if he’s 10 there, he’s 16 for the Great Depression.
1940 sees him turn 27.
If he makes it intact to 1946, though… well, he’s in clover.
Hell, that could be Don Draper.Report
Wait, wait. Don Draper was born in 1926.
Never mind.
That kid could be the old guy at the agency.Report
What strikes me here along those lines is the grown-ups’ strutting that turned out to be so emblematic of Italy and Germany in WWII. The boy looks much more like the slouching American GIs who couldn’t march for sh*t but learned quickly to be damned good at killing.Report