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...strip has been well-received in translation," Capp explained. "They're even holding a Scherezade Hawkins Day in Portugal. But three times the English have risen as a man to protest against Li'l Abner. I know nothing about international affairs. Try my translators...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orderly Sanders Theatre Crowd Hears Capp, Kelly | 5/17/1956 | See Source »

There are no apparent plans for a riot tonight, however, when the creators of Pogo and Li'l Abner discuss "Humor and its Role in International Relations." Carroll F. Miles, Dean of Foreign Students and Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Dunster House, will moderate the program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cartoonists Kelly and Capp To Talk Tonight in Sanders | 5/16/1956 | See Source »

...other Canadian might have appeared tomorrow--Dartmouth captain Abner Oakes, a native of Quebec. But Okes injured his ankle severely in a game against Northeastern early last month and has been sidelined for the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Sextet Faces Green In First Ivy League Contest | 1/6/1956 | See Source »

...last words will also provoke serious interpretation. Felix Krull is a picaresque novel, and it stands, looking sometimes a little lump ish, in the raffish succession of The Golden Ass to Don Quixote to A Sentimental Journey to Lafcadio's Adventures to (sob!) L'il Abner itself. The book's first fragment (54 pages) was published more than 30 years ago-inspired by the impassioned morbidities of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground. But most of the final 330 pages, written in the last years of the author's life, strike up a more and more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Old Man's Art | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...language of those wonderful, distant days. His racy and ebullient yarns of plugging canal leaks, spiriting runaway slaves along the underground railway, and keeping books for a traveling circus are crammed with theologasters, dawpluckers, makebates, hoodledashers and such archaic huncamunca. His grandson's version of baseball in the Abner Doubleday country may not be so uproarious as James Thurber's rowdy recollections of the game in Columbus, Ohio. But his saga of Hop Bitters ("The Invalid's Friend& Hope"-alcoholic content: 40%), which Patent Medicine Man Asa T. Soule of Rochester put over by promoting a baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life with Grandfather | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

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