Word: hillbillyism
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The missing Capp sequence concerned one Happy Vermin, the self-described "world's smartest cartoonist," who had hired Li'l Abner to draw Vermin's comic strip in a dimly lighted closet. Instead of using Vermin's tired characters, Li'l Abner had inventively peopled...
Neither an M.D. nor a pharmacist, LeBlanc is plainly a go-getting businessman. He pushed Hadacol with a down-to-earth selling policy that included Hadacol radio programs featuring the Hadacol Boogie, a specially written hillbilly song, a fervent appeal to folks' fondness for patent medicines. Testimonials have poured...
Popovich was a hamhanded, 6 ft. 3 in. Montenegrin hillbilly who had quit his medical studies in Belgrade to fight with the Reds in the Spanish Civil War. In 1938, in Paris, he met the new secretary of the Yugoslav Communist Party, one Tito, who took a liking to the...
A 45 has been the undoing of many a man, but it apparently takes a hillbilly quartet to beat John Ford to the draw.
He campaigned against federal aid to education, slashed the budget of the University of Utah. "If it's necessary to close every school in the U.S. for a year to save the Government, close them," he said. Once he flatly refused $100,000 of state funds for the Salt...