Word: polecat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just one of Capp's Harvard characters is based on a specific individual. A "smart Indian lawyer" called Harvard G. Polecat (the "G" is for "graduate") has, according to Capp," all the facial and physical characteristics of Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr." This fact has not disturbed Capp's friendship with his Cambridge neighbor...
Another use that Capp has made of Harvard in Li'l Abner resulted in Yale's being destroyed by the sweep of a lizard's tail. Hairless Joe and Lonesome Polecat--two of Dogpatch's more colorful denizens--got hold of a tiny lizard that matured into a giant pre-historic monster. While this process of growth was going on, Joe and Polecat were awarded veterans' scholarships--Polecast fought against the U.S. Army and Joe fought against Polecat in the Indian wars--and went to Harvard. On the way north, they stopped at New Haven, and shouting "Us Harvards hates...
...Howard Keel), the eldest, gets himself a wife (Jane Powell) by singing one of those rare ballads (When You're in Love) with love in the music as well as in the words, the other brothers celebrate their single cussedness by yowling a funeral Lament (for a lonesome polecat) that should fracture even the toughest audience...
...election boils down to a race between a Hoover-type Republican and a polecat, the race will be close but you can bet on the polecat . . . The Republicans will find victory only if they present to the people a liberal humanitarian, someone who will let the public know they have a friend...
While Jack's late brother, Charles L. Blanton, whip-tongued editor of a Scott County paper, was known as the "polecat editor," Jack always preferred a gentler and humbler approach. The most celebrated demonstration of its effectiveness was the 1942 Monroe County drought. In a 60-pt. streamer on Page One, Editor Blanton proclaimed: LORD, WE CONFESS OUR SINS, WE ASK FOR FORGIVENESS, WE PRAY FOR RAIN. An hour after the paper hit Main Street, the rains came. Recalls Blanton: "Trouble was, it rained so much the farmers couldn't harvest the crops. The farmers still come...