six days after war was declared he appointed Raymond Fosdick chairman of the Commission on Training Camp Activities ( the CTCA ).

Fosdick, a brother of minister Harry Emerson Fosdick, was a graduate of Princeton, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Philosophical Association.

Fosdick insisted that a strong word was needed from Washington, and it was immediately forthcoming.

Both Baker and Fosdick knew that a substitute was necessary, that a verboten approach was not the real answer.

When Fosdick showed the letter to Baker his negative response was: `` For God's sake, Raymond, don't show this to the President or he'll stop the war ''.

Under Fosdick the first executive officer of the CTCA was Richard Byrd, whose name in later years was to become synonymous with activities at the polar antipodes.

Gould was personally parodied in the series as cartoonist " Lester Gooch "— the diminutive, much-harassed and occasionally deranged " creator " of Fosdick.

In 1952, Fosdick was the star of his own short-lived puppet show on NBC, featuring the Mary Chase marionettes.

Other highlights of that decade included the 1942 debut of Fearless Fosdick as Abner's " ideel " ( hero ); the 1946 Lena the Hyena Contest, in which a hideous Lower Slobbovian gal was ultimately revealed in the harrowing winning entry ( as judged by Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dalí ) drawn by noted cartoonist Basil Wolverton ; and an ill-fated Sunday parody of Gone With the Wind that aroused anger and legal threats from author Margaret Mitchell, and led to a printed apology within the strip.

Li ' l Abner also featured a comic strip-within-the-strip: Fearless Fosdick was a parody of Chester Gould's plainclothes detective, Dick Tracy.

Gould was also personally parodied in the series as cartoonist Lester Gooch — the diminutive, much-harassed and occasionally deranged " creator " of Fearless Fosdick.

The style of the Fosdick sequences closely mimicked Tracy, including the urban setting, the outrageous villains, the galloping mortality rate, the crosshatched shadows, the lettering style — even Gould's familiar signature was parodied in Fearless Fosdick.

Besides being fearless, Fosdick was " pure, underpaid and purposeful ," according to his creator.

) Pimpleton ( they've been engaged for 17 years ), but Fosdick was directly responsible for the unwitting marriage of his biggest fan, Li ' l Abner to Daisy Mae in 1952.

* Wildroot Cream-Oil: Fearless Fosdick was licensed for use in an advertising campaign for Wildroot Cream-Oil, a popular men's hair tonic.

* Fearless Fosdick, composed by Bill Holman, was recorded live in 1954 by Vic Lewis and his Orchestra, featuring Tubby Hayes.

" Shmoozer ," a talking shmoo with an anthropomorphic human body, was a recurring sidekick character on Fearless Fosdick, a short-lived puppet series that aired on NBC-TV in 1952.

Harry Emerson Fosdick was its first minister.

Holt was the visual inspiration for Chester Gould's " Dick Tracy " and Al Capp's " Fearless Fosdick.

Tufts was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts to Leonard Tufts and Hepzebah Fosdick Tufts.

He was immediately hired as pastor of a Baptist church whose most famous member was John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who then funded the Riverside Church in Manhattan's Morningside Heights area overlooking the Hudson River, where Fosdick became pastor as soon as the doors opened in October 1930, prompting a Time Magazine cover story on October 6, 1930 ( pictured ).

Harry Emerson Fosdick ( May 24, 1878 – October 5, 1969 ) was an American pastor.

Fosdick became a central figure in the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy within American Protestantism in the 1920s and 1930s and was one of the most prominent liberal ministers of the early 20th Century.

Fearless Fosdick — and Capp's other spoofs like " Little Fanny Gooney " ( 1952 ) and " Jack Jawbreaker "— were almost certainly an early inspiration for Harvey Kurtzman's Mad Magazine, which began in 1952 as a comic book that specifically parodied other comics in the same distinctive style and subversive manner.

From the early 1940s to the late 1950s, there were scores of Sunday strip-style magazine ads for Cream of Wheat using the Abner characters, and in the 1950s, Fearless Fosdick became a spokesman for Wildroot Cream-Oil hair tonic in a series of daily strip-style print ads.

He observes that it is impossible to know whether Alger lived the life of a secret homosexual, " ut there are hints that the male companionship he describes as a refuge from the streets — the cozy domestic arrangements between Dick and Fosdick, for example — may also be an erotic relationship ".

In elections held on May 13, 2008, the four incumbents running for re-election — George D. Fosdick ( 1, 210 votes ), Maggie Boyd ( 1, 142 ), John H. Anlian ( 1, 063 ) and Hugo R. Poli ( 1, 006 ) — all won new terms in office.

Warrants were issued for 36 more people, with examinations continuing to take place in Salem Village: Sarah Dustin ( daughter of Lydia Dustin ), Ann Sears, Bethiah Carter Sr. and her daughter Bethiah Carter Jr., George Jacobs, Sr. and his granddaughter Margaret Jacobs, John Willard, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Abigail Soames, George Jacobs, Jr. ( son of George Jacobs, Sr. and father of Margaret Jacobs ), Daniel Andrew, Rebecca Jacobs ( wife of George Jacobs, Jr. and sister of Daniel Andrew ), Sarah Buckley and her daughter Mary Witheridge, Elizabeth Colson, Elizabeth Hart, Thomas Farrar, Sr., Roger Toothaker, Sarah Proctor ( daughter of John and Elizabeth Proctor ), Sarah Bassett ( sister-in-law of Elizabeth Proctor ), Susannah Roots, Mary DeRich ( another sister-in-law of Elizabeth Proctor ), Sarah Pease, Elizabeth Cary, Martha Carrier, Elizabeth Fosdick, Wilmot Redd, Sarah Rice, Elizabeth Howe, Capt.

Part of a virtual goon squad of comic mobsters that inhabited Li ' l Abner and Fearless Fosdick, the oafish Stanislouse alternated with other all-purpose underworld thugs, including " the Boys from the Syndicate " — Capp's euphemism for The Mob.

The impervious Fosdick considered the gaping, smoking holes " mere scratches ," however, and always reported back in one piece to his corrupt superior The Chief for duty the next day.

" When Fosdick is after a lawbreaker, there is no escape for the miscreant ," Capp wrote in 1956.

Fosdick also achieved considerable exposure as the long-running advertising spokesman for Wildroot Cream-Oil, a popular men's hair product of the postwar period.

By the time EC Comics published Mad # 1, Capp had been doing Fearless Fosdick for nearly a decade.

The celebrated author of juvenile adventure novels, Charles Austin Fosdick, better known by his pen name, Harry Castlemon, lived in Westfield for most of his adult life and is buried in the Westfield Cemetery.

In it, Time said that Fosdick " proposes to give this educated community a place of greatest beauty for worship.

His brother, Raymond Fosdick, was essentially in charge of philanthropy for John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

He was the nephew of Charles Austin Fosdick, a popular author of adventure books for boys who wrote under the pen name Harry Castlemon.

De Maria and his assistants — Robert Fosdick and Helen Winkler were the principal associates — scoured California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Texas by truck for over five years before settling on the site, east of the continental divide, elevation 7, 200 feet.

He went to work for the Food Board under Herbert Hoover, but sick of working with graham flour, he took a new position as civil aide to the commander in charge of amusements and morale at Camp Bowie, Texas as a dramatic director with the Fosdick Commission.

: Peter Tufts of Mystic Side, who many times during a long life appears in court records and files, and not always as a desirable neighbor, also complained of them Fosdick of Malden & Elizabeth Paine of Mystic Side ... Complaint v. Eliz Fosdick & Eliz Paine, Salem, Mary the 30th 1692: " Lt. Nathaniell putnam and Joseph Whipple both of Salem Village made Complaint in behalfe of theire majesty against Elizabeth fosdick of Maulden ( sic ) the wife of John fosdick afores Carpenter & Elizabeth paine off Charlestown the wife of Stephen paine of said place husbandman for sundry acts of Witchcraft by them Committed Lately on the bodies of Marcy Lewis and Mary Warren of Salen Village or farmes to theire great hurt therefore crauses Justice.

Fosdick had found the installations surrounded by a battery of saloons and houses of prostitution, with filles de joie from all over the country flocking to San Antonio, Laredo, and El Paso to `` woman the cribs ''.

He also ascertained that many officers were indifferent to the problem, including Commanding General Frederick Funston who gave Fosdick the nickname of `` Reverend ''.

Even so Fosdick, as the new Chairman of the Commission on Training Camp Activities, encountered strong and vociferous opposition.

Li ' l Abner also features a comic strip-within-the-strip: Fearless Fosdick is a parody of Chester Gould's Dick Tracy.

The style of the Fosdick sequences closely mimicks Tracy, including the urban setting, the outrageous villains, the galloping mortality rate, the crosshatched shadows, and even the lettering style.

Harry Emerson Fosdick, who had been charged with heresy by opponents in the denomination, a case settled when Fosdick, a liberal Baptist, resigned his pulpit in the Presbyterian Church, which he had never joined.

Other founders are Colige Comins, Reirlo Fosdick, and John Randall.

, the members of the Ridgefield Park Board of Commissioners, whose terms of office all end in 2012, are Mayor George D. Fosdick ( Commissioner of Public Safety ), John H. Anlian ( Commissioner of Public Affairs ), Maggie Boyd ( Commissioner of Revenue and Finance ), Adam MacNeill ( Commissioner of Parks and Public Property ) and Hugo R. Poli ( Commissioner of Public Works ).