Word: abner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time stood still in the Boston Globe city room yesteray as both morning and evening editions appeared without Li'l Abner. Deluged by calls from College aflcionados, editors claimed no policy decision was involved...
...hilarious and the horrible. It is Disney at his facile best. The rest of the story, dealing with quaint, legendary people, is flat and prosaic. Katrina might have popped out of a newspaper comic strip; Brom Bones looks like a Catskill country cousin of Li'l Abner...
Other local luminaries who will partake in the ceremonies are: Eddie Waitkus, Philadelphia Philly first baseman (out since May after being shot in a hotel room), Al Capp, author of "LIT Abner," actress Betty Field, and Mayor Michael J. Novilie...
...EIGHTH DAY (111 pp.)-Abner Dean-Simon & Schuster...
Cartoonist Abner Dean's publishers claim that psychiatrists try out his drawings on their patients. The average beholder who looks at And on the Eighth Day hard and long enough is apt to wonder whether it is he or the artist who is in need of a session on the confessional couch. Dean, a successful commercial artist and nephew of revolutionary Sculptor Jacob Epstein, has some of the humor of a Thurber or a Steig: but he is not trying to be funny. This is his third book of drawings (the others: It's a Long...