Word: capps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual dinner of the National Cartoonists' Society last week, everybody recognized President Milt (Steve Canyon) Caniff and Chief Speaker Al (Li'l Abner) Capp at the head table. But most of the 200 guests did not know the big, sandy-haired fellow in the place of honor. Murat Bernard ("Chic") Young, on his first visit to Manhattan in ten years, looked more like a small-town businessman than the $300,000-a-year creator of the world's most widely syndicated comic strip (Blondie), and the cartoonists' choice as best cartoonist of the year...
...officers are planning an outing of just the type that causes Al Capp to be violently, publicly, and (it is believed) figuratively sick to his stomach...
...Capp, of Schmoo and L'il Abner fame, Bill Mauldin, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, Irving T. McDonald, WEEI news analyst, and William E. Mullins, politics editor of the Boston Herald will take the Forum platform at 8 p.m. to express their personal views on the matter of the almighty dollar's effect on the nation's press and radio...
Last summer, Capp pinch hit for Drew Pearson as commentator on "Washington Merry-go-round" while Pearson was vacationing. During that brief spell of radio work, Capp sensed and expressed resentment about sponsors' interference with broadcasts...
McDonald, a full time and more content newscaster, is expected to defend radio sponsors from Capp's anticipated verbal onslaught...