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Albert Bernard Hollowood (3 June 1910 – 28 March 1981) was an English writer, cartoonist and economist. He was editor of the humorous weekly magazine ''Punch'' from 1957 to 1968. == Life and career == Born on 3 June 1910 at Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, Bernard Hollowood was educated at Hanley High School and St Paul's College, Cheltenham. He read economics at London University and graduated in 1936. He subsequently taught commerce, economics and geography at the City School of Commerce, Stoke-on-Trent. He moved to Loughborough College in 1941, where he was Head of the Commerce Department. He was a self-taught artist. He generally used a mapping pen and Indian ink on Whatman paper. Though not a good draughtsman, he sold his first drawings to ''Chamber's Journal'', ''Lilliput'' and ''Men Only'' in 1942. Before long he was contributing drawings and articles to ''Punch''. He left Loughborough College in 1944 and joined the staff of ''The Economist''. He stayed with the journal until 1945, becoming Assistant Editor. He was an expert on industrial ceramics, and was editor of ''Pottery and Glass'' from 1944 to 1950. From 1946 to 1947 he was Research Officer at the Council of Industrial Design. Hollowood was elected to the Punch Table in 1945. He was appointed the magazine's editor in 1957. He set very high standards, and would often require cartoonists to revise their submissions several times. Under him, ''Punchs circulation continued at around 115,000 copies, but he never became as well known as Malcolm Muggeridge, his immediate predecessor as editor. He left ''Punch'' in 1968. From 1957 to 1960 he was a pocket cartoonist for the ''Sunday Times''. He was also a regular contributor of articles or cartoons to many other publications, including ''The Times'', ''Geographical Magazine'', ''Socialist Commentary'', the ''Surrey Advertiser'', ''News Chronicle'', ''The Cricketer'', ''London Opinion'', ''The New Yorker'', the ''Evening Standard'', and the ''Daily and Sunday Telegraph''. As well as his own name, he also wrote and drew as 'Mammon'. A small selection of his cartoons is viewable online at the British Cartoon Archive.〔(Some Hollowood cartoons ) Retrieved 12 November 2015〕 He was a member of the Court of Governors of the London School of Economics. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in 1949. In 1962 he was awarded the Silver Medal of the Society for his lecture on humour. Bernard Levin interviewed him for his TV series ''The Levin Interview'' in 1966. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bernard Hollowood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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