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...Capp, creator of "L'il Abner," appeared at a Law School forum last fall on the subject of humor. Capp said at that time that Richard Nixon was the funniest man in the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wilson, Capp Discuss Gabor, Other Women | 10/16/1953 | See Source »

...Died. Abner Powell, 92, one of professional baseball's oldtime promoters who, as pitcher-rightfielder-manager of the New Orleans Pelicans, first inaugurated (1887) the rain check and Ladies' Day to boost game attendance; of a heart attack, while chopping down a chinaberry tree in his yard; in New Orleans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 17, 1953 | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

...speeches punctuated with invective, references to Lil Abner, and boos and cheers from the audience, John Ciardi, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition, tangled with the "treason-beat" New York reporter and writer, Victor Laski, at last night's Law Forum on "Limitations on Free Expression...

Author: By William W. Bartley iii, | Title: Laski, Ciardi Tangle Over Limits on Free Expression | 4/11/1953 | See Source »

...Petit Abner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs,INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN,OBIT: Ring In the New | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...typical." Unlike such weepy radio competitors as Young Dr. Malone and The Guiding Light, Moore tries to run his program on the lines of a comic strip: "No one show of mine fractures you all by itself. But, in continuity, they go over&151;just like Li'l Abner or Pogo." Moore's formula is convincing sponsors as well as viewers: this week Masland rugs joined his six other advertisers (Kellogg, Deepfreeze, Duff's Baking Mix, Ballard & Ballard, Best Foods and Stokely-Van Camp) to give him nearly a commercially full house for his 30-minute show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Moore for Housewives | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

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