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...Bosom of the Masses. Critics, carping or constructive, loom very small, however, in Capp's public. Millions feel that he can do no wrong. He has not only been clutched to the bosom of the masses but has been nominated as a genius by fragments of the intelligentsia. Britain's Princess Elizabeth is a "slobbering" Abner fan; so are Novelist John Steinbeck, Comedian Harpo Marx, Lawyer Morris Ernst and NSRB Boss W. Stuart Symington...
...Capp has created something very like a national festival-Sadie Hawkins Day-which on Nov. 18 will be celebrated for the 14th time on campuses from coast to coast. Chicago will be the epicenter of this year's celebrations. Capp himself will crown the winner of a Sadie Hawkins Chase. To qualify for the final scramble, adolescents of both sexes, in "full Dogpatch regalia," will first race on a treadmill...
...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...
Enraged in advance, and feeling that he was already the dupe of a wily fraud, he took steps to improve his station. But just what steps he took are a matter of conjecture. Capp, a man with such an instinct for the dramatic that he sometimes lapses into purest fiction, swears that he got the copyright from the syndicate by a one-man strike: he quit drawing the strip for two weeks and thus reduced the syndicate to abject submission...
United Feature, however, denies the tale completely. It says it has full title to the copyright. It admits that Capp has much more control over his creature than most cartoonists, but claims that he did not get it until 1947-when he sued the syndicate for a ringing $14 million, and then, with calculated magnanimity, settled out of court...