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...humor of the iconoclast. Now, there's no one who enjoys more than I the prospect of Orphan Annie getting her due, which, in this instance, comes in being taken advantage of by some drunken Yaleman (and later handed over, a hopeless reprobate, to the making of Li'l Abner), but the initial joy of such humor is soon dissipated, and by the time the reader wades through a fight-fixing Joe Palooka and a baby-killing Dagwood, he begins to long for the world set right again...
...Committee exists in order to take care of just such people. In the past it has received so little business that you would think all Harvard examinations were written by Addison and Steele. But since many of them read more as though they were written by L'il Abner, the Committee should be getting a much larger clientele...
...shmoo is a friendly, fruitful, gourd-shaped animal that wandered into Al Capp's Li'l Abner last summer (TIME, Sept. 13). Its Life & Times was simply a reprint of funny-paper strips, plus a weekend's work by Capp on extra drawings to make Dogpatch only reasonably unintelligible to readers venturing there for the first time. Asking nothing of the world, the shmoo gave everything: butter, milk, eggs, boneless meat, building materials (of sliced shmoo), suspender buttons (of shmoo eyes). Wherever shmoos went-and they multiplied like speeded-up guinea pigs-no one had to work...
...Enterprises, Inc., he stands to make an extra $100,000 from the book and 26 licensees who are busily turning out shmoo balloons, ashtrays, dolls, scarves, banks, soaps and suspenders. In a couple of months Toby Press, one of the mushrooming Capp enterprises, will take over Li'l Abner comic books, previously farmed out to publishers...
During this presidential campaign, lots of people have said lots of stupid things. But it took a Harvard professor to utter what is certainly the greatest campaign monstrosity that has reached my cars. His name is Warren Abner Seavey, he is the Bussey Professor of Law, and he was speaking for Dewey at the Law School Forum Friday evening. "Perhaps," he suggested, "the man who drove the gangsters from New York may be able to drive the gangsters from the Kremlin...