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| | Drawn on Deadline |
 | | hen Bill Gallo was recently asked how long it took him to draw a cartoon, he replied, "Two hours and 40 years." Drawing a Crowd, written by Phil Cornell, a copy editor at The Daily News, is a celebration of those four decades, and Gallo's uncanny ability to render sports stories into insightful, single-frame drawings. |
 | | Gallo's stylized truth-telling even got through to Muhammad Ali, who used a Gallo cartoon, depicting a corpulent Ali pushing his own stomach around in a wheelbarrow, as motivation to get back into shape. |
 | | Gallo's superior saw it, and said, "From now on, do it your way." The sports world is richer for it. |
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