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...best-oiled Negro political machine in the U.S. is run by Chicago's Congressman William L. Dawson, 71 ("The Lion of the South Side"). Nobody knew it better last week than United Auto Workers' Political Action Committeeman Willoughby Abner, who got thrown out as president of the booming (13,300 members) Chicago chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. because he picked a personal fight with Dawson. A year ago Abner sensed that many a Chicago Negro felt Dawson was wrong in helping work out a compromise civil rights plank at the Democratic National Convention. Abner persuaded South Side Negroes...
...whole insidious plot designed to demean the fair name of Harvard will transpire in the comic strip "Li'1 Abner," and was hatched by the cartoon's creator, Al Capp, a man with a cause...
...slobbering fans can plainly see, Cartoonist Al (Li'I Abner) Capp dotes on needle-etched caricatures, e.g., Slobbovian Statesman John Foster Dullnik, curly-haired Pianist Loverboy-nik. As Chester (Dick Tracy) Gould well knows from the strip-within-a-strip Fearless Fosdick, Capp is not even (gasp!) a respecter of funny-paper characters. But last week, while readers watched Capp spoof Cartoonist Allen Saunders' lovable, motherly missus-fixit Mary Worth as a nasty, interfering old harpy named Mary Worm, the worm turned: Capp himself emerged in Mary Worth drawn as a swinish (ugh!), detestable cartoonist named Hal Rapp...
...deadliest denizen of Cartoonist Al (Li'l Abner) Capp's disorderly world is the Lower Slobbovian Bald Iggle, the gentle-looking bird that fixes a maddening, sad-eyed stare upon anybody who tells a lie. If Lower Slobbovia really existed and the U.S. needed an ambassador there, Washington would do well to send Manhattan Dress Merchant Maxwell Henry Gluck. Of all the foreign diplomats in Lower Slobbovia, Max Gluck alone would be so honest that he would run into no trouble with Bald Iggles...
...figures rolled sonorously across Chamber of Commerce luncheon tables from coast to coast. Congressional mail pouches swelled; New York's Republican Senator Irving Ives totted up 2,155 budget-cutting letters and postcards last month. Talk about the cost of Government even reached Broadway; in Li'l Abner Marryin' Sam sang: Treasury says the national debt is climbing to the sky,/And Government expenditures have never been so high. But out of all the commotion came only the same old reasons why the budget is hard to cut: peace, progress and pork...