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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Toads & Bloodworms. But at the same time he finds villainy of all kinds wildly entertaining. He is convinced that man's inhumanity to man-whether expressed in a simple hotfoot or an atomic explosion- is the basis of all humor, and he can discuss grafters, murderers and wife-beaters as delightedly as a zoologist describing a sporty specimen of toad or bloodworm. Capp is a large-framed, large-headed, exuberant man with a shock of black hair, bottomless energy and a bullfrog voice. He often climaxes a denunciation of some awful piece of skulduggery by bursting into ribald laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Die Monstersinger | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

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