Word: fosdick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dismal, Arctic citizens of Lower Slobbovia are forever doomed to stand buried to their chins in snow, bitten from behind by sempiternally voracious bears and wolves. The luckless victims of Fearless Fosdick, the fiendish detective (Capp's caricature of Dick Tracy), who is a dead shot and trigger-itchy, always end up perforated as neatly as so many slices of Swiss cheese. No true Abner fan (classified by Capp as a "slobbering" fan) can forget the magnificent moment when J. Roaringham Fatback, the hog tycoon, ordered Onnecessary Mountain tilted sideways with enormous jacks to keep its shadow from falling...
...Pandit, India's ambassador to the U.S.; Mildred McAfee Horton, ex-President of Wellesley; Ester Forbes, 1945 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History; Tilly Edinger, Research Paleontologist in the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology; Anne O'Hare McCormick, N.Y. Times Foreign Correspondent and 1938 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Journalism; Dorothy Fosdick, Member of the State Department's Policy Planning Committee; Belle Sherwin, a founder and first President of the League of Women Voters; Mabel Newcomer, Professor of Economics at Vassar and a former members of the UN Conference at Breton Woods; and Ruth Baker Pratt, first woman to represent New York...