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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bleak uplands of Al Capp's pan-Slobbic Utopia were tense with expectation last week. It was the day most eagerly awaited by Lower Slobbovians-G.O.S.* Day, when one lucky citizen is named to fill the U.S. immigration quota of one Slobbovian per hundred years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOWER SLOBBOVIA: Escape from Utopia | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...force every candidate for public office to have his head examined. But after three weeks under the fiendish McRompers law, the U.S. had had enough. Washington went wild over repeal and the joyous headline: "Government officials no longer to be selected on basis of brains and integrity." Cartoonist Al Capp (Li'l Abner), who had dreamed up the episode in his Sunday comic strip, turned his fertile mind to other things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMAMENTS: In McRompers' Steps | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man of War | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...weeks Cartoonist Al Capp had sent his Li'l Abner chasing after Lena the Hyena, the ugliest woman alive. Just how ugly she was, Capp wisely left to his readers' imaginations. Every time she appeared, a big "DELETED" showed where her face should have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Don't Marry That Gal! | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...Capp got the idea a year ago, discussed it with Sinatra and friends. Charlie Ross, president of Barton Music Co., agreed to publish the song. Songsmith Sammy Stept (Don't Sit under the Apple Tree, etc.) wrote the music. Capp promised to draw the radio characters straight if they in turn would treat "Daisy Mae" and "Li'l Abner" as real people. Radio, which often lives in a comic-strip world, did not have to change pace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Daisy Mae's Friends | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

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