Word: dogpatch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Cartoonist Al Capp began introducing his readers to LIME-"the magazine with a flavor"-we asked Capp to tell us a little more about the new publication and how it got its name. In the words of the characters who populate his improbable county of Dogpatch (not to be confused with those who live in his even less probable country of Lower Slobbovia), he assured us: "It warn't no accident...
...Wholesome Note. After 18 years, Capp has finally bowed to true love because he has become worried over the heavy load of satire his strip carries. Readers have begun to complain that it is "un-American," and he thinks a marriage, even a $1.35 (new inflation price) Dogpatch one, will introduce a wholesome note. Says Capp: "When I kidded advertising, people wrote, 'Don't you know advertising is the backbone of America?' This attitude made me uneasy about kidding America . . . The only thing for me to do seemed to be to change completely, hoping that in another...
...Democrat moved boldly out of the rumor mill. Estes Kefauver, a smoothly tailored product of Yale Law School, who prefers to be regarded as a Tennessee mountain boy, announced in a Dogpatch drawl that he is a candidate. At a Washington press conference, the Tennessee Senator shook hands with himself for five minutes to please the photographers, made his announcement, then kissed his wife a dozen times for more pictures. This performance was punctuated by applause from his staff and friends...
...important minority among old car lovers can best be described as the "tobacco road set." These individuals collect Model T Fords and like vehicles which must be searched out with care in rural areas. Although it is possible that certain members of this group attempt to carry Dogpatch mores into other areas of behavior as well, the majority appear to be otherwise normal and their choice in cars can be laid to the misdirected appeal of the exotic...
...professor of classical languages at the University of Tennessee, is no credit to the joke business, wrote Capp: "He has a way with a joke, like Use Koch had with a tattoo. He skins 'em alive." Last week the Times let writer and reviewer scrap it out in Dogpatch style. Capp, wrote Professor Rapp, "has obviously not heard of the psychological experiments on wit . . . and of the 2,400-year history of the study of laughter . . ." Answered Cartoonist Capp: "I (gulp!) guess I am an amateur. I guess I have been so busy for the last 18 years creating...