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...deliberately, funny. At 41, after 14 years of drawing Li'l Abner, Capp makes $300,000 a year, is read by 38 million fans in 700 U.S. newspapers, and has been favorably compared not only to such classic cartoonists as Rube Goldberg, but to such writers as Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens and Voltaire...
...only man who could write that way about the vast Mississippi or a small boy was, of course, Mark Twain, and the book is a reissue of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Chanticleer...
This grisly old con-man of Mark Twain's imagining was soon proved a fraud and ended his brief reign riding out of a Mississippi River town on a rail. But the real-life claims of another pretender to the same identity were still in dispute last week. When he first arrived in Paris on May 26, 1833, he was a balding watchmaker with a thick mustache and a fringe of chin whiskers. His passport identified him as Karl Wilhelm Naundorff of Weimar, but the passport, its bearer promptly explained in almost incomprehensible French, was merely a blind; Karl...
...Mark Twain would be only half right today: a good many people are now doing something about the weather. The humorist could see the change at time has made by visiting the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory. There, on the highest point (625 ft.) between Massachusetts and Florida, withing ten miles of the ocean, Professor Charles F. Brooks and his staff worry about weather all the year round...
Frances and Richard Lockridge, who are best known to U.S. readers as joint authors of the Mr. & Mrs. North whodunits, are of a mind with Mark Twain. But in their new book, which covers Felis domestica from tail to whiskers and traces feline history from ancient Egypt to the present day, they sadly admit that vast numbers of people cannot stick cats at any price. Ailurophobia (fear of cats) may in certain cases be so intense that the mere suggestion of a cat's presence may cause the sufferer, in the words of a scientific observer, to respond with...