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" It was the prevailing opinion among his friends that Capp's Swiftian satire was, to some degree, a creatively channeled, compensatory response to his disability.
( Leviticus was actually much closer to Capp's later villains Lem and Luke Scragg, than to the much more appealing and innocent Li ' l Abner.
The gag was often at his own expense, as in the above 1951 sequence showing Capp's interaction with " fans " ( see excerpt ), or in his 1955 Disneyland parody, " Hal Yappland.
But in 1952, when General Motors president Charles E. Wilson, nominated for a cabinet post, told Congress "... what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa ," he inspired one of Capp's greatest satires — the introduction of General Bullmoose, the robust, ruthless, and ageless business tycoon.
The Capp-Fisher feud was well known in cartooning circles, and it grew more personal as Capp's strip eclipsed Joe Palooka in popularity.
" The article recounted Capp's days working for an unnamed " benefactor " with a miserly, swinish personality, who Capp claimed was a never-ending source of inspiration when it came time to create a new unregenerate villain for his comic strip.
Allen Saunders, the creator of the Mary Worth strip, returned Capp's fire with the introduction of the character " Hal Rapp ," a foul-tempered, ill-mannered, and ( ironically ) inebriated cartoonist, ( Capp was a teetotaler ).
This work was collected by Dark Horse Comics in a four-volume hardcover series entitled Al Capp's Li ' l Abner: The Frazetta Years.
Although Capp's endorsement activities never rivaled Li ' l Abner's or Fearless Fosdick's, he was a celebrity spokesman in print ads for Sheaffer Snorkel fountain pens ( along with colleagues and close friends Milton Caniff and Walt Kelly ), andwith an irony that would become apparent later — a brand of cigarettes, ( Chesterfield ).
" Nixon was worried about the allegations, fearing that Capp's very close links to the White House would become embarrassingly public ," Hersh wrote.
The name was taken from Al Capp's comic strip Li ' l Abner.
The term " Skunk Works " came from Al Capp's satirical, hillbilly comic strip Li ’ l Abner, which was immensely popular in the 1940s and ' 50s.
The first prototype of Pong, one of the first arcade videogames, was installed in Sunnyvale in September 1972, in a bar named Andy Capp's Tavern, now Rooster T. Feathers.
Li ' l Abner Yokum: The star of Capp's classic comic strip was hardly " little.
In Capp's satirical and often complex plots, Abner was a country bumpkin Candide — a paragon of innocence in a sardonically dark and cynical world.
Daisy Mae ( née Scragg ) Yokum: Beautiful Daisy Mae was hopelessly in love with Dogpatch's most prominent resident throughout the entire 43-year run of Al Capp's comic strip.
Though his uncle Tiny was perpetually frozen at 15½ " y ' ars " old, Honest Abe gradually grew from infant to grade school age, and became a dead ringer for Washable Jones — the star of Capp's early " topper " strip.
The senator was satirist Al Capp's parody of a blustering anti-New Deal Dixiecrat.
One of Capp's more popular villains, Wolf Gal was briefly merchandised in the fifties with her own comic book, doll, handpuppet, and even a latex Halloween mask.
Joanie was Capp's notorious parody of protest singer / songwriter Joan Baez.
In Al Capp's own words, Dogpatch was " an average stone-age community nestled in a bleak valley, between two cheap and uninteresting hills somewhere.
Drawn by cartoonist Steve Stiles, the new Abner was approved by Capp's widow and brother, Elliott Caplin, but Al Capp's daughter, Julie Capp, objected at the last minute and permission was withdrawn.

was and finely
It was excavated by Spiegelthal in 1854, who found that it covered a large vault of finely cut marble blocks approached by a flat-roofed passage of the same stone from the south.
A common form of food preparation was to finely cook, pound and strain mixtures into fine pastes and mushes, something believed to be beneficial to make use of nutrients.
While he was encamped in Baghdad, Murad IV is known to have met the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan's ambassadors: Mir Zarif and Mir Baraka, who presented 1000 pieces of finely embroidered cloth and even armor.
Using an engraved image was deemed a more secure way of printing stamps as it was nearly impossible to counterfeit a finely detailed image with raised lines unless you were a master engraver.
While he was encamped in Baghdad, Sultan Murad IV is known to have met the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan's ambassadors: Mir Zarif and Mir Baraka, who presented 1000 pieces of finely embroidered cloth and even armor.
The first man-made diffraction grating was made around 1785 by Philadelphia inventor David Rittenhouse, who strung hairs between two finely threaded screws.
For the most part, however, an amphora was tableware, or sat close to the table, was intended to be seen, and was finely decorated as such by master painters.
This finely grained material was a major contributing factor to precision of detail, both architectural and sculptural, that adorned Ancient Greek architecture.
Even though this artists ' quarter of Montmartre was characterized by generalized poverty, Modigliani himself presented — initially, at least — as one would expect the son of a family trying to maintain the appearances of its lost financial standing to present: his wardrobe was dapper without ostentation, and the studio he rented was appointed in a style appropriate to someone with a finely attuned taste in plush drapery and Renaissance reproductions.
In her later years, she was often criticised for gaining weight and letting her looks go, but Signoret, who was never concerned with glamour, ignored the insults and continued giving finely etched performances.
Aelnat's cross which was found at Trevillet and then moved to Trevena, is finely carved.
Even the caustic critic Theodore Martin ( who was usually virulently hostile to Dickens ), spoke well of the book, noting it was " finely felt, and calculated to work much social good ".
Its sacred grove furnished the olive oil that was distributed as prizes in the Panathenaic Games and contained in the finely decorated Panathenaic amphorae presented to the winners.
The process converted the lead to lead oxide, and it was then finely ground to form a pigment for white, yellow and red lead paint.
Only one home within the Carbon city limits had a well until the late 1990s when rural water was finely piped in.
It was tightly covered in finely polished, white limestone.
The set of Six Characteristic Pieces of 1848 was dedicated to Liszt, who described it as " the most outstanding, finely felt and finely finished pieces that have recently come to my note.

was and tuned
This new banjo was at first tuned dGDF # A, though by the 1890s this had been transposed up to gCGBD.
Viewership peaked on Christmas Day 1987 when an average of 28. 5 million viewers tuned in to see Hilda Ogden leave the street to start a new life as a housekeeper for long term friend Dr Lowther ( although there is some confusion as to whether or not this was actually the highest rating episode due to a special omnibus repeat of that week's episodes being combined with the original airing ).
A gammadion shaped gold light mill, only 100 nanometers in diameter, was built and illuminated by laser light that had been tuned to have an angular momentum.
In the late 1960s, the British motorcycle industry was unable to support a national team to compete in the International Six Days Trial so, Cheney hand built a limited number of ISDT Cheney-Triumphs using his own design of twin down-tube frame with a specially tuned Triumph 5TA engine.
Harmony Corruption, their third full-length album, was tuned up to a D. Bolt Thrower went further, dropping 3½ steps down ( A ).
He was also the Host of the 230th July 4, 2006 of the PBS July 4 " A Capitol Fourth " Celebrations in Washington, D. C. in which he sang, danced, and played tuned drums.
From this, the mandolino ( a small cat gut-strung mandola with six strings tuned g b e ' a'd g sometimes called the Baroque mandolin or cat-banjo and played with a quill, wooden plectrum or finger-style ) was developed in several places in Italy.
At the United States Naval Observatory, a radio receiver was lifted 3 kilometers above the ground in a dirigible tuned to a wavelength between 8 and 9 kilometers, using a " radio-camera " developed by Amherst College and Charles Francis Jenkins.
Here Adobe provided hand tuned bitmaps to cover the small screen fonts, and ugly scaling of any other size on the screen was also provided.
When triodes were first used in radio transmitters and receivers, it was found that tuned amplification stages had a tendency to oscillate unless their gain was very limited.
The difference frequency between that of the incoming signal and that of the oscillator was selected by a tuned transformer, becoming the input to the receiver's intermediate frequency ( IF ) amplifier.
In 1850 the territory of the former oblast was tuned into reorganized into the Erivan Governorate.
In the homodyne or synchrodyne system, a local oscillator was tuned to the desired input frequency and multiplied with the input signal.
The intent was to develop an alternative receiver circuit that required fewer tuned circuits than the superheterodyne receiver.
They could be heard at least ten miles away and were tuned to 55 Hz, a low bass B note that was chosen for maximum passenger comfort despite the high sound pressure level.
Sony claims the major advantage of ATRAC3 is its coding efficiency, which was tuned for portable DSP which provides less computing power and battery life.
Georges Ammann, concert technician with Steinway's factory in Hamburg, said, " We were getting a lot of complaints from pianists all over the world – they said that getting their pianos tuned was a disastrous process every time and that the local technicians were hopeless.
Many people who tuned in without hearing the introduction of the program as fiction were concerned that the invasion was real.
In part, the number 3 was assigned as televisions would usually be tuned so that the regional ITV station would be on the third button, the other stations being allocated to the number within their name.
After extensive analysis by the engineers, the problem was fixed by the retrofitting of 37 fluid-viscous dampers ( energy dissipating ) to control horizontal movement and 52 tuned mass dampers ( inertial ) to control vertical movement.
Used widely throughout the Indian subcontinent, the sitar became known in the western world through the work of Ravi Shankar beginning in the late 1950s and early 1960s after The Kinks ' top 10 single " See My Friends " featured a low tuned drone guitar which was widely mistaken to be the instrument.
Until about 1650 the most common keyboard temperament was quarter-comma meantone, in which the fifths were narrowed to the extent that they were just usable, and would thereby produce justly tuned thirds.
When a station was tuned, the motor stopped.

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