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...comic-strip world of Li'l Abner the unthinkable is always happening. But few readers ever expected the most unthinkable event of all: the ("gulp") marriage of Li'l Abner to Daisy Mae. Though Abner has been close enough to the altar to whiff the smoke from the cigar of self-made Magistrate Marryin' Sam, Cartoonist Al Capp always stepped in, in time's nick, with a save. Once, at the crucial moment, a gas explosion blasted Abner into a tree out of Daisy Mae's reach. Another time, after Preacher Sam had completed...
Time was when baseball was a summer sport, played by young men who could wiggle a finger at the left-field stands without getting a banner line in someone's second section. Those were the good old days. Since then Abner Doubleday's pleasant pastime has been attenuated into an eight-months monster, devouring two-thirds of the year and thousands of tons of newsprint, bleating out paragraphs about the weight of Dick Wakefield's spikes and the quality of the umpiring in the Sally League...
...prevents Abner Greene, executive secretary of the American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign-Born, and Arthur McPhaul, executive secretary of the Michigan Chapter of the Civil Rights Congress, from appearing under the auspices of two University organizations, the Campus Civil Liberties, Committee, and the Young Progressives...
Each week Al Capp, the creator and continuing source of life of L'il Abner, presides over a half hour television program which proceeds on the premise that there is something inherently entertaining in five people sitting before cameras and talking. Doubtful as the premise is, shows of this ilk enjoy considerable popularity on TV schedules, probably because they require no sets, little talent, and to outside appearances, no organization and rehearsal...
Movies will get still another boost at 10:30 p.m. tonight when two College seniors and two Radcliffe undergraduates appear on Al Capp's television show originating at the WBZ-TV studio. When not performing, Capp draws the comic strip, "L'll Abner...