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He received the Kansas City Civil
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ordinance. The Mayor said the
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on a football scholarship and established a single season NCAA passing record, completing 66.7% of his passes in 1953. At WKU, he met and married Joyce
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Sanders career has been marked by controversy. His first published cartoon after college was a comic strip for the 8th Army base newspaper in Seoul, which was terminated by the commanding
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editorialized that this conflict “is doing serious disservice to the people.” Sanders was suspended for two weeks after his drawing of a local judge as a pregnant
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columnist Bill Vaughn said readers would suddenly “call us up in the middle of the night, denouncing us as comsymps, nigger lovers and pree-verts.”
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seemed to fade into anonymity after disputed arrest tactics resulted in the editor of the police newsletter coming into the
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as a political cartoonist (1959–1963). He then moved to the
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kept “pigs” on the paper. In a feature article on
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