Only one author in all of history can claim to have won an Academy Award and depicted Hitler as a turtle. That would be Theodore Giesel, more commonly known as “Dr. Seuss”, much less commonly known as “Jimbo the Cave-Diving Monkey Squirrel”, who sold an estimated 600 million books in his career, many of them containing the word “floob-boober-bab-boober-bubs”.

Giesel began his career as an advertising illustrator for Standard Oil and a product called “Fli...