Word: btfsplk
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...Jack Btfsplk...
...time last week, Richard Nixon could have been taken for legendary Joe Btfsplk, the creature out of L'il Abner who always walks under a cloud. There was his trouble on the TV debate with Kennedy. Rain dogged him from Illinois to New York to Massachusetts. Chowder fog slowed his chartered Convair while crowds waited restlessly on the ground below. Gremlins bugged up his public-address system in Long Island City and Schenectady, N.Y., and unfortunate twists crept into his off-the-cuff sallies ("It's our responsibility that we . . . get rid of the farmers" instead of "farm...
...Btfsplk's cloud had its spots of silver lining. Flying from Chicago into Memphis, Nixon got the biggest crowds in the city's history, outdrawing Democrat Kennedy's visit the week before. Down on the Mississippi waterfront, crowds twice as great as Kennedy's clogged the street for a block to hear Nixon. Rain, started falling, umbrellas snapped open, but no one left. Nixon spoke out on civil rights, and when he said "Let's make our country the shining example for all the world to see of equality for all," many whites cheered along...
...apparently refers to the musical comedy Li'l Abner, for which there are also a few words of advertisement. On the back cover there is a picture of Al Capp grinning. Inside are Dumpington Van Lump, P. Fangsgood Droolsby, Big Barnsmall, the outside man at the Skonk Works, Joe Btfsplk, the world's greatest jinx, and Fearless Fosdick, all of whom have their imitators in life...
...Btfsplk rhymes with a Bronx cheer, more or less...