Word: capps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Experts. To help build a comic page, Editor Barnes has called in able Strippers Al (Li'l Abner) Capp and Milton (Steve Canyon) Caniff as consultants, figuring that if he can't publish their strips he can at least pick their brains. Others in the new braintrust: Editor Richard Lauterbach of '48, part-time adviser on layout and features; Lawrence Resner, who left a labor reporting job on the New York Times to be Crum's right-hand man; Managing Editor Jay Odell, a Nieman Fellow and former telegraph editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer. PM Editor...
...300th meeting of the Security Council last week may well have stirred envy in the narrow breast of "Evil-Eye" Fleegle. As readers of Cartoonist Al Capp's Li'L Abner know, Fleegle, a saturnine resident of Brooklyn, has eyes of compelling power. Mother Nature, in a misguided moment, endowed him with the ability to transmit visual whammies. A single whammy can stop a policeman in his tracks. Slightly stronger whammies will tame a gorilla or stun a herd of oxen. Rarely, only rarely, does Fleegle loose the lightning bolt of a double whammy, which is powerful enough...
...Cartoonist Al (Li'l Abner) Capp ad-libbed his way into a radio job. On the strength of his guest appearances on Information Please and Town Meeting, he was hired as summer substitute for Drew Pearson. "I'll be a humorous news commentator," said Capp, "if I can find any humorous news to comment...
...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...
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...