Word: abner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...silver dollar hawkers have kept up their professional spirits. They hang around street corners, clinking gleaming stacks of coins, their orthodox blue Chinese gowns topped by broad-brimmed brown fedoras that give them, from the neck up, that zooty air usually associated with Broadway characters in Li'l Abner. The price of their coins, like the price of everything else, has climbed dizzily...
...Capp, of Schmoo and L'il Abner fame, Bill Mauldin, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, Irving T. McDonald, WEEI news analyst, and William E. Mullins, politics editor of the Boston Herald will take the Forum platform at 8 p.m. to express their personal views on the matter of the almighty dollar's effect on the nation's press and radio...
...humor of the iconoclast. Now, there's no one who enjoys more than I the prospect of Orphan Annie getting her due, which, in this instance, comes in being taken advantage of by some drunken Yaleman (and later handed over, a hopeless reprobate, to the making of Li'l Abner), but the initial joy of such humor is soon dissipated, and by the time the reader wades through a fight-fixing Joe Palooka and a baby-killing Dagwood, he begins to long for the world set right again...
...Committee exists in order to take care of just such people. In the past it has received so little business that you would think all Harvard examinations were written by Addison and Steele. But since many of them read more as though they were written by L'il Abner, the Committee should be getting a much larger clientele...
...Enterprises, Inc., he stands to make an extra $100,000 from the book and 26 licensees who are busily turning out shmoo balloons, ashtrays, dolls, scarves, banks, soaps and suspenders. In a couple of months Toby Press, one of the mushrooming Capp enterprises, will take over Li'l Abner comic books, previously farmed out to publishers...