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...LLOYD ABNER MASHBURN, 55, California's labor commissioner, to be Under Secretary of Labor. A veteran trade unionist (he still belongs to Local 42 of the Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers, A.F.L.), stocky, forceful Mashburn has been active in Los Angeles labor leadership, was brought into the state government in 1951 by Governor Earl Warren. Unlike his new boss, Labor Secretary-Designate Durkin, Mashburn is a Republican...
...chronic pleurisy; in his villa at Kugenuma, Japan. The Oxford-educated prince was in ill health during most of World War II, sat it out with Tokyo's military garrison. At war's end Chichibu became Western-minded again, avidly read American comic strips ("Li'l Abner ... I can't understand...
...nominate the only person who has stayed pure and innocent throughout his entire career-Li'l Abner...
Some day, however, says Capp, he will be unable to restrain himself from giving TIME (or LIME, whose slogan is, "If you can't read it-eat it!") the full treatment which is customary in his comic strip, Li'l Abner. Says he: "I'm surprised I haven't done a thorough job on it before, because it's a setup the whole country is familiar with." Then he adds with a thoughtful air: "I will inevitably do a complete massacre. The only way I can do a thorough job is with the gloves...
...felt he was my friend. But the unusual thing about it was that you picked a guy to do the job who read my strip. I've had people from other magazines come up to interview me and say: 'Now about that strip you do-Lum & Abner.' I gradually came to expect that O'Neil would do a fair-maybe even a complimentary-story on me. What I never expected was the really sparkling story that finally came...