Word: fisherisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Success, his boundless faith in himself, and his instinct for defending Li'l Abner to the death, involved him in another conflict-a remarkable feud with his former employer Ham Fisher. Capp parted from Fisher with a definite impression, (to put it mildly) that he had been underpaid and unappreciated. Fisher, a man of Roman selfesteem, considered Capp an ingrate and a whippersnapper, and watched his rise to fame with unfeigned horror...
Quick, Henry, the Flit! As the feud developed, Fisher-apparently by studying Li'l Abner with a magnifying glass-decided that it contained minuscule Rabelaisian detail calculated to undermine the morals of American youth. He caused certain frames of Abner to be enlarged and reprinted, and, after ringing suspicious portions in red, sent them to publishers, urging them to drop Capp's strip...
Nominees for president are; Nancy Fisher, Sidney Foster, Cynthia Green. Clair Martin, Mary Ellen Beinert, and Ruth Sudhoff; for vice-president: Joanne Gilbert, Nancy MePartlin, and Nancy Mardirosian; for secretary; Joanne Eeard,, Lois Herr, and Sylvia smith; for treasurer; Ellen Clough, Myrl Duncan, and Betty Anne Ellers...
Selected from Ames were Lawrence Newmark 1L, Philip T. Kaplan 1L, Francis D. Fisher 3L, and Robert D. Taichert 2L. Designated from Dane were Russell R. Pearson 2L, Anton M. Lund 1L, and Phillip N. Crawford...
...came to Harvard in 1891 as an instructor in botany, working for his degree in the Lawrence Scientific School while teaching. He became an assistant professor in 1905, and in 1915 gained the post of Fisher Professor of Natural History...