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...club. Cartoonists Alfred Gerald Caplin (Al Capp), who draws Li'I Abner, and Chester (Dick Tracy) Gould have never met. But Al Capp has been admiring Dick Tracy from afar. Five years ago Capp put "Fearless Fosdick" into his Li'l Abner strip, a detective whose hat brim snapped and jaw jutted just a bit more than Tracy's. The compliment has never been returned, because Tracy is too busy catching villains (Itchy, Shaky, B.O. Plenty, Pruneface, etc.) to go in for burlesque...
Good sequence: Playwright Tone, hat brim down and coat collar up, eavesdropping among the customers out for air during the second-act intermission of his new play...
...Times's letters column Lieut. Colonel P. Youngman Carter of d'Arcy House, Tolleshunt d'Arcy, near Maldon, Essex, announced a horrifying discovery (in an old wardrobe): a bowler hat whose brim turned down. Wrote he: "The hat possesses a classic (or dome-of-St. Paul's) crown, five inches high but unwaisted, but the brim, which is a full two and a half inches wide, is perfectly flat save for an inverted gutter at the extreme edge.... I am wondering if it is an example of individual taste...
...face down in the slit trench with the brim of my helmet in the soft ground, as close to the earth as I could get, and held my breath. . . . When the bombs went off and I realized that I hadn't been hit, I found I couldn't draw a full breath. My chest felt contracted and tight. I was cold...
...board across the President's lap. He chuckled as he talked: "... I hope some of the scribes in the papers won't intimate that I expect to make Washington my permanent residence. . . ." He talked extemporaneously for three minutes, with the rain beginning to drip from the brim of his grey campaign hat. "This is a very wonderful welcome home ... a welcome I shall always remember...