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...Mortimer Caplin, Commissioner of Internal Revenue. When he got the phone call from the White House advising him of his appointment, University of Virginia Law School Professor Caplin, 44, was in his office with an Internal Revenue agent who was going over Caplin's last three tax returns. Not that there was anything wrong with Tax Expert Caplin's arithmetic ("I came out clean"); he was undergoing the customary procedure inflicted on all prospective Administration appointees. Caplin won a certain reputation as a classy middleweight boxer at the University of Virginia ('37). In later years Caplin...
...Part. All this wealth, recognition and acclaim is in dramatic contrast to the record of Capp's earlier years. Li'l Abner's creator, who was born Alfred Gerald Caplin in New Haven, Conn., in 1909 (he shortened his name to Capp in signing the strip, changed it legally in 1949), grew up amid a ferocious struggle with poverty. His father, Otto Caplin-a glib, cheerful, optimistic man who studied law at Yale, had a dilettante's interest in art and nursed continual schemes for making his fortune-managed to eke out only the barest living...
...Caplin led her four children in an endless tactical retreat from one shabby rented house to the next. She worked out complicated trade agreements with butchers and merchants, refused to deal with a grocer who would not hire one of her three sons, and charmed bakers into parting with stale bread. She summoned up an awesome queenliness when facing unpaid and threatening landlords. There were times when she went out, late at night, and rummaged through neighbors' ash barrels for fragments of usable coal...
Tourists eat well in Newfoundland. The main fare is steak, lamb, salmon or lobster, but there are also such piquant island specialties as seal-flipper pie, smoked caplin (a smeltlike fish), fried cod tongues, and gamy saltwater bird. For dessert, there are blueberries, tart partridge berries, and amber-hued bakeapple berries, topped with thick cream. Strictly for strong stomachs is the Sunday morning breakfast of fish and brewis (boiled hardtack) with pork cracklings...
...Caplin & Squid. The newly formed Sight-Seeing Tours Co. runs trips to Newfoundland's characteristic fishing villages -clusters of houses and sheds clinging to sheer cliffs. Harvey & Co. Ltd. has a tour that takes in coves where, in summer, shoals of the glistening caplin strike, and where dorymen with multi-hooked jiggers catch squid for bait for the Grand Banks fishing fleet. At tour's end, 40 miles from St. John's, is trim little Cupids, the beauty spot picked by John Guy in 1610 for the first permanent colony...