Word: fisherisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After years of noisy sparring, feuding Cartoonists Ham (Joe Palooka) Fisher and Al (Li'l Abner) Capp knocked each other out of the ring last week. In New York Cartoonist Fisher was suspended from the 325-member National Cartoonists Society "for conduct unbecoming a member." The society's Ethics Committee accused Fisher of using "altered, tampered-with and . . . not a true reproduction" of Capp's cartoons in an effort to prove Capp slipped pornography into his drawings. Meanwhile, in Boston, Al Capp withdrew as a stockholder in the Massachusetts Bay Telecasters. Capp, who was confronted with...
...lawyers introduced the report of the 1951 New York State Joint Legislative Committee on comics. In the record were eight pages of photostats of Capp cartoons under the heading: "Sexually suggestive cartoons and in some instances semihidden pornography." Capp had no trouble recognizing the photostats as the same ones Fisher has been passing around. Exploded Capp: "These are forgeries . . . We conducted an investigation of the source of the forgeries. We are in the last stage of finding the forger." Furthermore, the exhibits were not taken from his newspaper strip, but from comic books over which he had no control...
Capp's lawyers made it plain who had given the pictures to the legislative com mittee. The photostats, they said, were "supplied by Ham Fisher." But when the lawyers for Capp tried to introduce affidavits from document and handwriting experts to prove that the drawings had been doctored, the FCC said no. The matter of the cartoons was closed so that the hearings could get back to the main business...
Financier Louis Wolfson last week won a key battle in his proxy war with Sewell Avery for control of Montgomery Ward & Co. In a suit filed by Wolfson, Chicago Circuit Court Judge Harry M. Fisher ruled that Ward's staggered system for electing directors was illegal; it was a violation of the state constitution that guarantees every stockholder the right to enjoy maximum voting strength...
...electing only three of Ward's nine directors each year (for three-year terms) Avery has concentrated his proxies, been able to keep any minority stockholder group from getting a foothold. To Ward's courtroom arguments that staggered terms* preserve continuity and stability in management, Judge Fisher replied: ". . . Stability in management is always desirable, but whether continuity of the same individuals on the board insures stability may be questioned ... It may lead to the perpetuation of error and mismanagement." Judge Fisher ordered Ward's directors to repeal the staggered-term bylaw, notify stockholders that all nine directorships...