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...Capp's comic strip Li'l Abner walks a dangerous rope: it often picks its topics out of the headlines, and sometimes finds its humor in the neighborhood of the outhouse. Last week, on both counts, it disappeared for a week from the columns of the Scripps-Howard Pittsburgh Press. Editor Edward Towner Leech had taken umbrage at a broad burlesque of the U.S. Senate...
...having lost many of its top programs to other networks, got a few in return (Mr. & Mrs. North from NBC, Double or Nothing from Mutual, Lum 'n' Abner from ABC). Headline repeaters: Dick Haymes, Baby Snooks, Lux Radio Theater. Edward R. Murrow returns to newscasting, with a Washington report...
...recent months, as advertisers have slashed their radio budgets, Keystone's business has jumped into seven figures. In the past year the company has taken on 70 new affiliates; in the past month, ten. Such networkers as Burns & Allen, Lum & Abner, have gone on KBS platters to "fill the holes" in their network coverage. Come fall, Sillerman has hopes of signing Bing Crosby and Jack Benny...
...your article on Roy Roberts of the Kansas City Star [TIME, Feb. 24], you neglected to mention the great pulse of public opinion. When the Star and Times were "bedridden" it was tough not to see what Li'l Abner was doing. However, nine out of ten people then and now would drop the Star like a hot potato if any other kind of daily sheet would only come to town. The people's prayer is: please, God, send one, so we can have both sides of an issue and not have just what one paper likes shoved...
...Bulletin's 180-page first Sunday edition this week, thrown together in eight days by regular Evening Bulletin staffers working overtime, was packed with such ex-Record features as Drew Pearson, Hedda Hopper, Steve Canyon and Li I Abner. It included comic and book sections still under the Record emblem, and two magazine sections for the price of one: Marshall Field's Parade and Hearst's American Weekly-both of them loot from the Record. With a Sunday package like that, Publisher McLean hoped soon to take the qualifier out of his advertising slogan: "In Philadelphia, Nearly...