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...days in Boston ten years ago," it read, "I was sure that you would some day become famous enough for me to kick around in Li'l Abner . . . Since you are now a household word, it is up to all the Yokums and all the Capps to kid the daylights out of you, your piano, your candles, your curly hair and your adoring fans. I plan to do a Sunday page sequence about a pianist named Liverachy. Any resemblance to you will be deliberate . . . Cordially, Al Capp." Cartoonist Capp, whose king-sized ego permits few turndowns, was stunned when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 1, 1954 | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

...white heat," said he. "It was frightening to me . . .A steady diet of this . . . will destroy us." Meanwhile, Tennessee's Ray Jenkins, special committee counsel at the long-winded hearings, discovered that he had popped up as Y. Y. Cragnose, a bumpy-beaked character in Cartoonist Al Capp's Li'l Abner. "Cragnose is uglier than I am," rasped Jenkins. "But I've been getting plenty of fan mail ... I do wish he'd refine that face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 30, 1954 | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

...Capp's version of the Slobbo-vian lie detector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 21, 1954 | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

Some even claim that Winthrop resembles the illustrious Schmoo created by Al Capp. It fits any occasion: broil it for chicken and fry it for steak. In essence, the Schmoo is friendly and productive and antagonizes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Hits Golden Mean, Though T-Shirts Top Tie-clips | 4/1/1954 | See Source »

...elbow with clique. This would mean that Harvard is made up of a series of cliques something like city gangs. I find this item quite uncalled for! . . . You completely ignore the two hour entertainment program at which a majority enjoyed themselves, all save the "Puerto Rican faction" as Al Capp referred to them. As to the waiters "ruffling up" anybody, while they may have been slightly overzealous in performing their duty, they, in the main, did an admirable job. I feel that continuing the Smoker is advisable although possibly minor alterations could be made. In contrast to the editor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMOKER SCREEN | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

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