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Information Please (Fri. 10 p.m., Mutual). Guests: Cartoonists Milton Caniff and Al Capp...
...Capp filled his Li'l Abner space with season's greetings to his pals, but Washington Publisher "Cissie" Patterson, who is mad at Walter Winchell and her ex-son-in-law, Drew Pearson, had their names routed out. Times-Herald readers who phoned in about the empty spaces were blandly told: typographical error...
Reader M. Whitney Lee, in his virtuous haste, has missed the entire point, which is that the democratic system which permits (but does not force) him to praise his legislators, also impartially allows Al Capp to poke fun at them...
...ultimate test of the character of an individual or an institution or a government is: Can it stand being laughed at? Hitler couldn't, nor Mussolini. It is doubtful if Stalin could long survive under a system which permitted Capp and his ilk to have their...
Although an occasional pat on the back is a good thing for those of our representatives who are trying to do the right thing, yet there is nothing like a little incisive satire (of which Capp is an accomplished master) for keeping the blatant demagogues under control. Senator Jack S. Phogbound is a type not peculiar to the U.S.A. We are all acquainted with a few Jack S.s, and in some cases a glance in the mirror may reveal the existence of a wholly unsuspected addition to the number...