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...Abner" is the number one Freshman choice, with "Terry and the Pirates" second, far behind Al Capp's Dogpatch hero. In 1935, a similar survey put "Popeye" and "Barnoy Geogle" on top, but neither carned a vote this year. "Dick Tracy" and "Prince Valiant" tied for third...
...toured the state's back parishes, sweating geniality, whomping out Dogpatch oratory, and invoking the magic name of brother Huey (whom he had called a "big-bellied coward" in 1931), the voters found him irresistible. In last week's run-off election, Louisiana gave him the greatest vote ever polled by one candidate-with 44 of 1,878 precincts still to be counted, his total was 422,766. Sam Houston ("Sad Sam") Jones, the "good government" candidate who had beaten Earl for the governorship in 1940 and broken the back of the old Huey Long machine, got only...
...censored strips, the Senate needed one vote to defeat a bill to put Congress on the air ("and you know what'll happen to us if the American people can actually hear us!"). The Senate's only hope was hideous, snaggle-toothed Senator Phogbound of Dogpatch, "th' most ignorant commoonity in th' country." Phogbound's price was $2,000,000 to build a Phogbound University, "to be known as P.U." He got the appropriation (argued one Senator: "It isn't as though it were my money-it's just taxpayers' money...
Industrially, too, the atomic bomb may save more money than it cost ($2,000,-000,000). A. L. Baker of the Kellex Corp. of Oak Ridge (code name: Dogpatch), Tenn. last week issued an impressive list of non-atomic advances made while the bomb was in production. Among them...
Into that brand-new city (called Dogpatch) flooded weird equipment: thousands of powerful, new-type pumps, gigantic electromagnets, innumerable other machines and instruments. Amid oceans of mud and battlefront confusion, they finally found their places. Both plants were successful, produced effective quantities of precious...