Word: abner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shmoo was discovered by Al Capp's Li'l Abner. When, last month, he began to hear strange music which sounded like "shmoooooooooooo!", his eager pursuit of the lilting sound was barred by an amazon of fierce and busty aspect. ("Ah sees to it," said she, "that th' shmoon don't come over th' mount'in.") Nevertheless, Li'l Abner penetrated into the forbidden Valley of the Shmoon, where a sage clad only in his own beard, called Old Man Mose, frantically explained the shmoo situation to the intruder. "Shmoos...
...said that spoke from a natural bias. Nobody could accuse Al (Li'l Abner) Capp of disloyalty to his profession. Was there a shred of truth in his assertion? To prove that there might be, 100 topflight cartoonists were exhibiting their best work in Manhattan last week...
...Experts. To help build a comic page, Editor Barnes has called in able Strippers Al (Li'l Abner) Capp and Milton (Steve Canyon) Caniff as consultants, figuring that if he can't publish their strips he can at least pick their brains. Others in the new braintrust: Editor Richard Lauterbach of '48, part-time adviser on layout and features; Lawrence Resner, who left a labor reporting job on the New York Times to be Crum's right-hand man; Managing Editor Jay Odell, a Nieman Fellow and former telegraph editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer. PM Editor...
...300th meeting of the Security Council last week may well have stirred envy in the narrow breast of "Evil-Eye" Fleegle. As readers of Cartoonist Al Capp's Li'L Abner know, Fleegle, a saturnine resident of Brooklyn, has eyes of compelling power. Mother Nature, in a misguided moment, endowed him with the ability to transmit visual whammies. A single whammy can stop a policeman in his tracks. Slightly stronger whammies will tame a gorilla or stun a herd of oxen. Rarely, only rarely, does Fleegle loose the lightning bolt of a double whammy, which is powerful enough...
...Abner, Fleegle's evil eye is usually thwarted by the overpowering goodness of Mammy Yokum's counter-whammy. But in all its meetings the Security Council has not been able to find an antidote for the Russian basilisk. This week, true to his promise, Gromyko double-vetoed the motion on Czechoslovakia...