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...self-taught, spent the rest of his life carrying out the ancient Chinese precept: "Read 10,000 books and travel 10,000 miles." Though Tessai traveled extensively throughout Japan-including a visit to the Hairy Ainus in Hokkaido (Tessai sketched them humorously, looking like prime candidates for Cartoonist Al Capp's Lower Slobbovia)-and did drawings and maps for the government topographical office, it was scholarly reading that remained his prime inspiration...
...pure abstractionists" whose work was accepted for exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, I am deeply honored to be included in Cartoonist Al Capp's "small group of the unbalanced," etc., which has given him so much pain [Feb. 18]. In the loneliness of my basement studio I am eternally grateful that I have never degraded my talent or my conscience nor sold my soul-for a bowl of mud-mushrooms...
Amen, Cartoonist Al (Li'I Abner) Capp. May your tribe increase...
...whose plain life left plenty of room for fictional embroidery. The object: to demonstrate "brainstorming" (TIME, Feb. 18), a technique of group creativity that joins a lot of brains into assault on a single problem or concept. The brainstormers-two professors, an inventor, a hospital director and Cartoonist Al Capp-also laid down some amusing spoofs, e.g., a Chinese friend comforts Arthur in a miserable boyhood moment, thus laying the groundwork for his presidential veto of the Chinese Exclusion...
Kaye, whose appearance for the Forum follows that of Al Capp last Saturday, will be introduced by Louis Loss, professor of Law. The comedian and his company are currently appearing at the Colonial Theatre in Boston...