Word: abner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frightening to me . . .A steady diet of this . . . will destroy us." Meanwhile, Tennessee's Ray Jenkins, special committee counsel at the long-winded hearings, discovered that he had popped up as Y. Y. Cragnose, a bumpy-beaked character in Cartoonist Al Capp's Li'l Abner. "Cragnose is uglier than I am," rasped Jenkins. "But I've been getting plenty of fan mail ... I do wish he'd refine that face...
After watching, listening to and reading about the McCarthy-Stevens hearings, I have come to the conclusion that the only way we will ever get at the truth is to place one of Li'l Abner's "Bald Iggles" in a conspicuous place, where each witness must stare into those "sad, reproachful eyes that pierce souls...
Underneath his Li'l Abner façade, he is a shrewd businessman. His official tournament earnings over the years amount to $250,000. Local matches and exhibitions (at a flat fee of $1,250 per exhibition) have probably doubled his take...
...Nieman Fellows, a Pulitzer Prize winner, a Classics professor, two visitors from a small school in Appleton, Wisconsin, an itinerant Dutchman, and a teaching fellow in History. The tone of the conversation is serious, the expressions of the participants intent. They are discussing the situation facing L'il Abner and Daisy...
...group is not indulging in some new egghead fad. Host Arthur Meier Schlesinger has always been a L'il Abner fan. Mrs. Schlesinger delights in telling of the encounter her husband once had with a flesh and blood representative of the comic strip...