Word: abner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Horse Laughs. One of the liveliest books of the series is Usafi's English Grammar. Chief feature is a set of sparkling illustrations (see cut) by newspaper cartoonist Abner Dean. Before the reader gets to Chapter I he encounters a pretest for common errors that embodies horse laughs typical of the whole book...
...name of Abner Doubleday is Finn MacCool? Perhaps a first baseman Branch Rickey spotted in. Nellies Apron, Ark.? What's his batting average...
Engaged. Martha O'Driscoll, 21, Tulsa-born cinema blonde ("Daisy Mae" in Lil Abner); and Lieut. Commander Richard Donald Adams, 34, flat-top chief engineer; in Los Angeles...
Last October Funnypaper Artist Al Capp turned his popular Li'l Abner, published in over 600 papers and top-flight among comic strips, into a three-week slapstick parody of Margaret Mitchell's famed best-seller Gone With The Wind (he called it Gone Wif the Wind). Said Capp: "I really went to town. It was swell...
...Capp was bewildered. He had used Li'l Abner to burlesque many a book and play. He had parodied Romeo &Juliet,and William Shakespeare had not turned a hair...