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Reader Terrence O'Toole of Moorhead, Minn, was troubled. Why had Al Capp's comic strip, Li'l Abner, been missing from the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune for four weeks in a row? Wrote Reader O'Toole: "Censorship? Slow mail service? Forget to pay the syndicate...
...missing Capp sequence concerned one Happy Vermin, the self-described "world's smartest cartoonist," who had hired Li'l Abner to draw Vermin's comic strip in a dimly lighted closet. Instead of using Vermin's tired characters, Li'l Abner had inventively peopled the strip with hillbillies. Cried bighearted Vermin to his slaving assistant: "I'm proud of having created these [hillbilly] characters!! They'll make millions for me!! And if they do-I'll get you a new light bulb...
...other winners are: Al Capp, "Li'l Abner" creator, and businessmen William E. Barbour, John L. Gillis, and Richard S. Morse...
...Said That? (Mon. 10:30 p.m., NBC). Guests: Milton Caniff, Al Capp, Bella Spewack...
Pleased as punch with his gift copy of The Life and Times of the Shmoo and an assortment of shmoo toys, Emperor Hirohito's brother, Prince Chichibu, sat right down and wrote Cartoonist Al Capp a little thank-you note: "I, as a shmoo fan, was awfully delighted at seeing various activities of shmoo and its actual figure. The kigmy, I think, is too marvelous and the most useful creature in our human society . . . Long Live Li'l Abner...