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...resemblance to Senators Hubert Humphrey and Hugh Scott were recently dispatched to Li'l Abner's Dogpatch to learn why it is the one pollution-free spot in the U.S. Reason: the Gobbleglops, which look like pigs with bunny tails, gobble up, in the words of Mammy Yokum, "all glop, irregardless . . . They's natcheral-born incinerators. Thass why glop goes in 'em an' none comes out!!" Pogo has been invaded in recent months by an odd beast, half Great Dane and half hyena, that looks and alliterates like Spiro T. Agnew, by a bulldog that...
...survive and prosper. Still, though comics are indeed a popular art form, it is going a bit far to compare, as Critic Maurice Horn does, Gasoline Alley to Goethe's Wilhelm Meister and Little Orphan Annie to the works of Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo. As Mammy Yokum might say: "Some folks don't know when to stop...
...ABNER (NBC, 7:30-8 p.m.). Al Capp's "Dogpatch" moves to TV, with Sammy Jackson playing the title role, Judy Canova as the recalcitrant "Mammy" Yokum, Jerry Lester her peace-lovin' "Pappy," and Jeannine Riley as Daisy Mae. "sneak preview...
Deliberately building a slum for hillbillies might seem an odd way to fight poverty. Except in this case the squalid hollow will be called "Dogpatch," and the developers stand to make a pile. Cartoonist Al Capp, 57, agreed to let a group of Little Rock entrepreneurs use his Yokum hokum in the construction of a sort of yokel Disneyland on 800 acres in the Arkansas Ozarks around Marble Falls. "It will have log cabins and Sadie Hawkins Day races," Capp explained, "and things like family trout fishing, which is a hell of a lot of fun if you aren...
...Suzy Dimmitt was quite electrifying as Stupefyin' Jones, making the loss of the Old Howard seem lass tragic. Evil Eye Fleagle Max Byrd threatened to steal the show everytime he appeared just by standing around with his incredibly plastic face; when he talked and threw whammies around even Mammy Yokum, superbly played by Susan Medcalf, was overwhelmed...