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Cartoonist Al Capp, who invented Lena to rib fellow Cartoonist Chester (Dick Tracy) Gould's horrifying collection of comic characters, insisted that his own Lena was too ugly for him to draw. He asked the 27,000,000 readers of Li'l Abner to show their notions of how she looked. It turned out to be the comic promotion stunt of the year: everybody seemed to want to draw the ugliest woman alive, and a million repulsive drawings came in. Capp and three strong-stomached judges (Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff, Salvador Dali) picked the worst...
...more meat than Canadians (1946 estimated per capita consumption: American, 141 Ibs.; Canadian, 136 Ibs.). But Canada had not mismanaged her meat supply the way the U.S. had (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Now she had ample meat and low prices, stable at their ceilings (about 33? a Ib. for prime rib roast, 37? a Ib. for veal chops, 49?^ a Ib. for porterhouse steak...
Captain Cleo O'Donnell, who suffered a broken rib on Saturday, is expected to be sidelined about a month, but O'Donnell is the only player who saw action against Tufts who will definitely not appear in the Princeton game...
...contest which saw the Varsity realize all the nice things the "experts" had been saying they might, in a ridiculously easy triumph over a not-too-potent Tufts eleven, the price paid in casualties was surprisingly high. Captain Cloo O'Donnell, the sparkplug of the game, suffered a broken rib after his dazzling runback of a Jumbo punt early in the first period, and the mightly mite will be out of action for several weeks. The team's doctor should rule on the approximate date of his return today...
...crude wooden hut 20 miles from Paris, agents of the Paris police studied a fantastic corpse. It was the bloated body of a white man, but it had turned a ghastly, gleaming black. On each side of the torso, from rib to groin, the flesh had apparently been burned by a powerful chemical...