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...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...
Capp's characters speak in odd dialects. Dogpatch folks do not talk like real hillbillies but as Capp feels a hillbilly would probably talk if he lived near the Skonk Works all his life; his Lower Slobbovians speak a language flavored with Bronxian gutturals...
...will be celebrated for the 14th time on campuses from coast to coast. Chicago will be the epicenter of this year's celebrations. Capp himself will crown the winner of a Sadie Hawkins Chase. To qualify for the final scramble, adolescents of both sexes, in "full Dogpatch regalia," will first race on a treadmill...