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...last week's Sunday strip, Cartoonist Al Capp left Li'l Abner in Venice, innocently but enthusiastically helping the last of the Borgias bottle the last of the Borgia poison. With typical Capp satire, Li'l Abner named the concoction "Peppi-Borgia," and Mammy Yokum had a wonderful idea: "We'll give it a rootin', tootin', go-gettin' American ad-vertisin' campaign...
Died. J. (for James) Thomas Heflin, 82, jovial Alabama demagogue, Democratic Representative (1904-20) and Senator (until 1930); after long illness; in Lafayette, Ala. A cartoonist's Congressman (windy manner, frock coat and black bow tie), Klan-backed "Tom-Tom" stood for higher cotton prices and "white supremacy," inveighed against "the liquor interests," "the wolves of Wall Street," New York's "Roman-Tammany system," and Catholicism,* which he represented as out to i) get his scalp, 2) plunge the U.S. into war with Mexico. In 1928, rather than support Catholic Al Smith for the presidency, Heflin bolted...
...last fortnight received orders to come home. Last week, apparently undecided about whether to put herself at the mercy of Prague, she shut herself into her London house (a servant answered the telephone with a nervous, "Madam is out. . ."). ¶ Adolf Hoffmeister, ambassador to Paris, suave, witty writer and cartoonist. His wife, announced the embassy, would "remain in Paris for the time being...
...Cartoonist Capp, creator of the comic strip "Li'l Abner," will evaluate the effect of the comics on the movies. As a former Hollywood scenario writer, he should be able to compare the typical movie and comic strip audience...
...Front (Universal-International) tries to bring to life Stars and Stripes Cartoonist Bill Mauldin's famed, long-suffering dogfaces, Willie and Joe, who gave World War II G.I.s a tartly humorous reflection of their own hardships, gripes and frustrations...