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...life. Settling down to a slow-paced, hand-to-mouth and inbred way of life, they became famed chiefly for moonshine, revenooers, family feuds and hillbilly music. They became the inspiration for Erskine Caldwell novels and such comic-strip caricatures as Snuffy Smith and Li'l Abner...
...quick glance, mop-haired Jean Frène, 20, seems to be a French version of Li'l Abner. The ninth of eleven children, he grew up in a dirt-floor stone hut on a hardscrabble farm near the hamlet of Longes (pop. 500), 30 miles south of Lyons. Life was so poor that ten years ago his father went to work in a steel plant, where he earns $100 a month. At 14, Jean quit school to work on the farm, seeing little future beyond hard labor and a draft call to Algeria when he reached...
While disappointments and problems were zooming around him recently, President John Kennedy told a White House liaison man: "I'm damned if I don't feel like that cartoon character in Li'l Abner who's always wandering around with a rain cloud over his head...
...time last week, Richard Nixon could have been taken for legendary Joe Btfsplk, the creature out of L'il Abner who always walks under a cloud. There was his trouble on the TV debate with Kennedy. Rain dogged him from Illinois to New York to Massachusetts. Chowder fog slowed his chartered Convair while crowds waited restlessly on the ground below. Gremlins bugged up his public-address system in Long Island City and Schenectady, N.Y., and unfortunate twists crept into his off-the-cuff sallies ("It's our responsibility that we . . . get rid of the farmers" instead of "farm...
ready for Freddie (from comic strip Li'l Abner)-ready for anything