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Other local luminaries who will partake in the ceremonies are: Eddie Waitkus, Philadelphia Philly first baseman (out since May after being shot in a hotel room), Al Capp, author of "LIT Abner," actress Betty Field, and Mayor Michael J. Novilie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schlesinger, Houston Start Charities Drive | 10/11/1949 | See Source »

...EIGHTH DAY (111 pp.)-Abner Dean-Simon & Schuster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Is Anybody Happy? | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Cartoonist Abner Dean's publishers claim that psychiatrists try out his drawings on their patients. The average beholder who looks at And on the Eighth Day hard and long enough is apt to wonder whether it is he or the artist who is in need of a session on the confessional couch. Dean, a successful commercial artist and nephew of revolutionary Sculptor Jacob Epstein, has some of the humor of a Thurber or a Steig: but he is not trying to be funny. This is his third book of drawings (the others: It's a Long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Is Anybody Happy? | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...Hatfields and McCoys of baseball were at it again; for the fifth time in nine years, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Brooklyn Dodgers were in a slambang fight for the National League pennant. The hopes of the other six clubs were as dead as Abner Doubleday's grandfather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Man | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...Abner. A newcomer to the air, this program, based on Al Capp's comic strip, typifies the casting problems faced by TV directors who, in this case, must search for reasonably accurate facsimiles of Dogpatch denizens. The show would be easy to cast for radio. For television, more than 4,544 actors have been interviewed for the title role and for Daisy Mae, but no one has been definitely decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: There'll Be Some Changes | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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