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...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 Liberace's lawyers said no. Recovering quickly, Capp invented a new character, Loverboynik by name, who bears an astonishing similarity to Liverachy. Loverboynik is a mad, foppish, candle-less TV pianist with a squealing female public and a mass of platinum...
...crockery-slinging wife Maggie in 1912. The pair have battled in 27 different languages across the pages of some 750 newspapers. The strip's gentle spoofing of America's rags-to-riches-to-high society dream was translated into movies and radio shows, made a millionaire of Cartoonist McManus, who was regarded by his cronies as the spit & image of Jiggs...
...addition the Cavaliers put out Harvard's Captain Vince Moravac for the rest of the season with a broken kneecap. The final score itself proved to be a sharp reversal of the Crimson's opening victory when more fortunate scheduling had provided cartoonist Peter Arno with the opportunity to quip about the Harvard graduate. On that occasion, the eleven whipped Western Maryland...
...avoid noise-and enmity-the Air Force last year ordered jet pilots not to roar through the sonic barrier near populated areas. The ADC's chief, General Ben Chidlaw, put the problem to friendly Cartoonist Milton Caniff, whose syndicated (550 papers) Steve Canyon promptly got his jet base out of a jam with local townspeople. Last week, in Shotgun Wedding, ADC men read the even more instructive how-to-do-it story of a real but unnamed jet base commander (actually, Colonel Harry Shoup of Truax Field at Madison, Wis.). The story...
...social outlook, Nigel recalls Peck's Bad Boy, while in some of his insights about adults, he might be a distant cousin of J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. As created by British Humorist Geoffrey Willans and Cartoonist Ronald Searle, Molesworth could scarcely be more British, but Americans will still find him highly amusing, for the Boys' International cuts across all frontiers...