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"I was a political moron when I took this job—and I still am." So Leonard Norris, 38, describes his qualifications for the job of political cartoonist on the Vancouver Sun. Norris joined the paper two years ago as a staff artist drawing maps, diagrams, etc., and he took his present assignment under protest. But his ignorance of politics has hardly been a handicap. Last week, scarcely a year after he started newspaper cartooning, Norris was named the best cartoonist of 1951 in Canada's annual Toronto Press Club National Newspaper Awards, roughly equivalent to the U.S. Pulitzer Prizes. Many a Canadian went...