Capp had it changed legally in 1949.

( When the award name was changed in 1954, Capp also retroactively received a Reuben statuette.

) The local geography was fluid and vividly complex ; Capp continually changed it to suit either his whims or the current storyline.

The local geography was fluid and vividly complex ; Capp continually changed it to suit either his whims or the current storyline.

Since then he has gone on to become one of the highest-paid stars on British TV, mostly in comedies, appearing in shows such as Only When I Laugh ( as Roy Figgis ), The Beiderbecke Affair ( as Trevor Chaplin ), The Beiderbecke Tapes, Andy Capp ( in the title role ), The Beiderbecke Connection, Second Thoughts ( as Bill MacGregor ), Midsomer Murders, Pay and Display, Dalziel and Pascoe, Close and True, Born and Bred ( as Dr. Arthur Gilder ), and New Tricks ( as Jack Halford ).

He did general assignment art for several months, drawing the strips Dickie Dare and The Gay Thirties, then inherited a panel cartoon called Mister Gilfeather in September 1932 when Al Capp left the feature.

: Knock-offs, such as Associated Press's Mister Gilfeather ( which, by the way, was handled at various times by both Al Capp and Milton Caniff, before they hit it big with Li ' l Abner and Terry & the Pirates, respectively ), began to proliferate.

By March 1932, Capp was drawing Colonel Gilfeather, a single-panel, AP-owned property created in 1930 by Dick Dorgan.

Following his close friend Milton Caniff's lead ( with Steve Canyon ), Capp had recently fought a successful battle with the syndicate to gain complete ownership of his feature when the Shmoos debuted.

Alfred Gerald Caplin ( September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979 ), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li ' l Abner.

Born in New Haven, Connecticut of Russian Jewish heritage, Capp was the eldest child of Otto Philip and Matilda ( Davidson ) Caplin.

" My mother and father had been brought to this country from Russia when they were infants ," wrote Capp in 1978.

" The Caplins were dirt poor, and Capp later recalled stories of his mother going out in the night to sift through ash barrels for reusable bits of coal.

In August 1919, at the age of nine, Capp lost his left leg in a trolley accident.

This childhood tragedy likely helped shape Capp ’ s cynical worldview, which, funny as it was, was certainly darker and more sardonic than that of the average newspaper cartoonist.

" The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else ," Capp philosophically wrote ( in Life magazine on May 23, 1960 ), " was to be indifferent to that difference.

!," a self-portrait by Al Capp, excerpted from theApril 16 – 17, 1951 Li ' l Abner strips.

At about this same time, Capp became a voracious reader.

Capp spent five years at Bridgeport High School in Bridgeport, Connecticut without receiving a diploma.

Attending three of them in rapid succession, the impoverished Capp was thrown out of each for nonpayment of tuition — the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Designers Art School in Boston — the latter before launching his amazing career.

Capp had already decided to become a cartoonist.

" I heard that Bud Fisher ( creator of Mutt and Jeff ) got $ 3, 000 a week and was constantly marrying French countesses ," Capp said.

In early 1932, Capp hitchhiked to New York City.

Capp moved to Boston and married Catherine Wingate Cameron, whom he had met earlier in art class.

Also during this period, Capp was working at night on samples for the strip that would eventually become Li ' l Abner.

Alfred G. Caplin eventually became " Al Capp " because the syndicate felt the original would not fit in a cartoon frame.

" Yokum " was a combination of yokel and hokum, although Capp established a deeper meaning for the name during a series of visits around 1965 – 1970 with comics historians George E. Turner and Michael H. Price.

“ It ’ s phonetic Hebrew — that ’ s what it is, all right — and that ’ s what I was getting at with the name Yokum, more so than any attempt to sound hickish ," said Capp.

A common criticism has been that many social science scholars ( such as economists, sociologists, and psychologists ) in Western countries focus disproportionately on Western subjects, while anthropology focuses disproportionately on the " other "; this has changed over the last part of the twentieth century as anthropologists increasingly, also study Western subjects, particularly variation across class, region, or ethnicity within Western societies, and other social scientists increasingly take a global view of their fields.

With the shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, art likewise changed its focus, as much in its content as in its mode of expression.

In 2003, it changed its name to reflect its wider focus in statewide preservation issues.

Moncton was a centre for railways and has changed its focus to becoming a multi-modal transportation centre with associated manufacturing and retail interests.

Exhibits include the prison's role in housing prisoners of war from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, manacles and weapons, memorabilia, clothing and uniforms, famous prisoners, and the changed focus of the prison.

While the ancient Egyptian beliefs usually recognized many gods, worship was often focused primarily upon a supreme deity, and this focus also changed from time to time.

Ground-based lasers or masers can also help a light-sail spacecraft to decelerate: the sail splits into an outer and inner section, the outer section is pushed forward and its shape is changed mechanically to focus reflected radiation on the inner portion, and the radiation focused on the inner section acts as a brake.

He changed the focus from his own actions to those of the slaveholders, knowing he would probably be acquitted.

Over time, the focus changed to helping people, especially families, become more self sufficient.

The 1208 murder of Pierre de Castelnau, a papal representative in Albigensian territory, changed Innocent's focus from words to weapons.

But in his dissent, he now changed the focus whereby he urged making personal privacy matters more relevant to constitutional law, going so far as saying " the government identified .... as a potential privacy invader.

The focus of the research has now changed to its utilization as a resource for communication and computation.

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon changed the focus of the racial profiling debate from street crime and “ driving while Black ” to terrorism and “ flying while Arab .” According to a June 4 – 5, 2002 FOX News / Opinion Dynamics Poll, 54 % of Americans approved of using “ racial profiling to screen Arab male airline passengers .” A 2002 survey by Public Agenda tracked the attitudes toward the racial profiling of Blacks and people of Middle Eastern descent.

The biological sciences department evolved rapidly from 1946 to 1972 as its research focus changed, due to the Cold War and other historically significant conditions external to academia.

With the arrival of punk rock in late 1976, the artistic focus of the band changed.

The World Skiboard Association " changed its focus " and was re-named the World Wakeboard Association ( WWA ).

With this acquisition, Ritual's focus on traditional action-oriented games was changed to casual games, essentially " stalling " Ritual's latest game series, SiN Episodes, after releasing only one episode out of a planned nine.

Since the mid-1990s, women have had more choice in bra sizes ; the focus has changed from choosing bras in an average size to wearing bras that actually fit perfectly.

Its use has changed considerably over the centuries with its focus shifting from adult adoption and inheritance issues toward children and family creation ; its structure moving from a recognition of continuity between the adopted and kin toward allowing relationships of lessened intensity.

Because of this experience, the researchers changed their focus to children, who did not need such large quantities of penicillin.

Some people feel that the deletion of homosexuality as a mental disorder from the DSM-III and the ensuing creation of the GID diagnosis was merely sleight of hand by psychiatrists, who changed the focus of the diagnosis from the deviant desire ( of the same sex ) to the subversive identity ( or the belief / desire for membership of the opposite sex / gender ).

The show was lighter and more oriented towards entertainment, though the show's focus often changed when major news stories occurred.

In 1995, the name of the program was changed to its current version, and the focus of the course shifted toward the strategic level of war.

School director Don Holder ( 1987 – 1989 ) changed this requirement to two monographs, the first with a tactical focus, and the second on an operational level topic.