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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burlesque of Johnny Ray's bestseller Cry, is the work of Stan Freberg, 25, an exponent of the Al Capp-Henry Morgan school of humor, who is otherwise known to Los Angeles' junior TV fans as Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent on the Time for Beany show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: It's the Style | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...always happening. But few readers ever expected the most unthinkable event of all: the ("gulp") marriage of Li'l Abner to Daisy Mae. Though Abner has been close enough to the altar to whiff the smoke from the cigar of self-made Magistrate Marryin' Sam, Cartoonist Al Capp always stepped in, in time's nick, with a save. Once, at the crucial moment, a gas explosion blasted Abner into a tree out of Daisy Mae's reach. Another time, after Preacher Sam had completed the $1.25 ceremony (with "hootin' an' hollerin', catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Unthinkable | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...Wholesome Note. After 18 years, Capp has finally bowed to true love because he has become worried over the heavy load of satire his strip carries. Readers have begun to complain that it is "un-American," and he thinks a marriage, even a $1.35 (new inflation price) Dogpatch one, will introduce a wholesome note. Says Capp: "When I kidded advertising, people wrote, 'Don't you know advertising is the backbone of America?' This attitude made me uneasy about kidding America . . . The only thing for me to do seemed to be to change completely, hoping that in another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Unthinkable | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...time Li'l Abner fans have recovered from the shock of the marriage, Capp will have another surprise for them. Next fall, he plans to make Fearless Fosdick a separate comic strip and has already lined up papers in 30 cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Unthinkable | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...Problem (Fri. 12:30 p.m., NBC). How to Get a Man, with Cartoonist Al Capp, Marriage Counselor Gladys Romanoff, Novelist Fannie Hurst, Moderator Ben Grauer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Mar. 3, 1952 | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

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