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Ever since the time of Abner Doubleday, baseball pundits have been proclaiming that "pitching is 75 per cent of the game." If the maxim is true, Harvard will gave roughly 25 per cent of a baseball team this year...
Exhibition participants, who examined and ponderously commented on all manner of comic-strip techniques, included an assortment of professors, movie directors, publishers, and three imported American comic-strip writers: Al Capp (Li'I Abner), Alfred Andriola (Kerry Drake), Lee Falk (Mandrake, the Magician). Most of the participants seemed thoroughly convinced that significant trends can be discerned in the way Li'l Abner runs from girls or scratches his head...
...Abner-on Broadway and in the film-she was a monadnock of sex as "Stupefyin' Jones." In The Marriage-Go-Round, she won a Tony award for standing on the stage dressed only in a towel and begging Charles Boyer, as a brilliant professor, to unite his mighty mens sana with her massive corpore sano. She brings the same sort of ingenuous sexuality to her role as a TV robot, managing the difficult trick of being comical and at the same time alluring enough to start the Colossus of Rhodes off his blocks...
Connecticut's only Republican Congressman, Abner Sibal, lost narrowly to the lawyer he had beaten in 1960, Donald J. Irwin. Four New Jersey Democrats defeated Republican incumbents, giving that state its first Democratic congressional majority (eleven seats to four) in 52 years. Louisville's former Democratic Mayor Charles Farnsley, a lanky eccentric who affects custom-made ante bellum clothes but is nevertheless a popular middle-reader, unseated Republican Incumbent Gene Snyder, who angered the district's 78.000 Negroes by voting against the civil rights bill. Across the nation, a dozen other conservative Republicans also toppled. Among them...
...consider its Bell Labs to be the finest industrial-research establish ment anywhere. A.T.&T. has become so much a part of the American scene that it is at once a source of envy and admiration and a butt of jokes. Says Cartoonist Al Capp, whose Li'I Abner delights in needling Mother Bell: "In this country, if we don't like our wives, or even our Government, we can change them. But have you ever tried to change your phone company...