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...comparing the average comic strip to Li'l Abner is like comparing an ordinary cocktail to a dipperful of Capp's own Kickapoo Joy Juice, a liquor of such stupefying potency that the hardiest citizens of Dogpatch, after the first burning sip, rise into the air, stiff as frozen codfish. Capp tries to give his readers not only a daily belly laugh, satirical Cappian comment on politics, sex, law enforcement, the housing situation and human rapacity, but surrealistic gobbets of action, mystery, horror and adventure as well...
Died. Representative Schuyler Otis Bland, 77, Virginia's white-haired perennial, one of the hardiest in the House (17 consecutive terms since 1918),*chairman of the House Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, longtime proponent of shipping subsidies; in Bethesda...
Like its hefty predecessors, jumbo-size New Directions XI is a literary junk shop where table after table full of crusty, dusty, doggedly experimental writing will discourage all but the hardiest. But those who do not mind shopping hard for their literary fare will stumble on a few things worth the eyestrain...
Hollywood, brooding about its newfangled competitor, television, likes to think of it as a cloud that is still no bigger than a man's hand. Last week the TV cloud was casting a sizable shadow on one of the U.S. screen's hardiest perennials: the newsreel...
...swung it against a steel plate. When the egg was free to move (like a passenger with no safety belt) a very slight shock broke the shell. When held tightly, the egg survived harder shocks. When cushioned with rubber in front, it lasted even better. The hardiest eggs were snuggled against a cushioned block that slipped a little when the swing hit the steel, allowing the egg to come to a slow stop. It took a powerful shock to crack such a coddled...