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...Abner" is the number one Freshman choice, with "Terry and the Pirates" second, far behind Al Capp's Dogpatch hero. In 1935, a similar survey put "Popeye" and "Barnoy Geogle" on top, but neither carned a vote this year. "Dick Tracy" and "Prince Valiant" tied for third...
Playing its aces early, the Smoker Committee presented all its stars--Victor Borge, Al Capp, Art Valpey, and Sherman Feller in the opening half of the evening. Lack of any main attractions is Kitty Kallen's last minute failure to appear, caused Freshmen to file out even more calmly than they field...
Visually demonstrating how he creates comic-strip characters "Fearless Fosdick" and "Daisy Mac," cartoonist Al Capp added, "I get most of my ideas for characters by just coning to smokers like this...
Others lined up for tonight's bill include comedian-pianist Victor Borge; Al Capp, creator of "Fearless Fosdick"; Coach Art Valpey in his first public appearance; and WEEI disc-jockey Sherman Feller, who will be master of ceremonies...
...comics any more corrupting than the classics? Of course not, said Capp. He told of a typical American family ("named Kinsey, of course") that wanted to shield young Kingsblood, 11, a comic fan, from "stories of murder, crime, violence and S-E-X." Before the Kinseys were through, said Capp, they had thrown out Oliver Twist, Alice in Wonderland, Shakespeare and everything but the phone book. Cracked Capp: "Mr. Brown is sorry that Li'I Abner isn't Huckleberry Finn. I'm sorry that Mr. Brown isn't George Jean Nathan...