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This week the most unthinkable event in the comic-strip world happened-apparently. After years of chasing Li'l Abner, busty, bee-yoo-tiful Daisy Mae had caught him on a give-away program. (She had guessed that Li'l Abner was "Mr. Bong" from the sound of a sledge hammer bopping his skull.) At the start of the marriage ceremony last Sunday, Li'l Abner was confident that something would happen to stop it. After all, Joe Btfsplk, the world's worst jinx, was standing by and when he was around, "somethin' awful," like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Btfsplk Does It | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Screamed Li'l Abner: "Joe!! Yo' has failed me!! Ah was shore somethin' would happen-somethin' awful!!" Croaked Btfsplk: "It (sob!) DID!!" Had the unthinkable really happened? Sadistic Cartoonist Al Capp left his readers to bite their nails over that for another week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Btfsplk Does It | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Participating in "The Faculty Votes" forum are Professor Edmund M. Morgan, chairman, Professor W. Barton Leach, professor Warren Abner Seavey, and Professor Richard H. Field. Other speakers have not as yet been named...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-OPA Chief Paul Porter Speaks Tonight at Forum | 10/15/1948 | See Source »

Participating in this "The Faculty Votes" forum are Professor Edmund M. Morgan, chairman, Professor W. Barton Leach, Professor Warren Abner Seavey, and Professor Richard H. Field. Other speakers have not been named. It is scheduled for October...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law School Plans First Forum on Red Spy Scares | 9/29/1948 | See Source »

Obviously, Old Man Mose was referring to the fact that without the challenge of environment there would be no growth of our civilization (see Arnold Toynbee). But after the progressive increase in H.C.L. . . . my household civilization seems arrested anyway, so, going along with Li'l Abner, bring on the shmoos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 27, 1948 | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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