Capp v. Fisher (Contd.)

After years of noisy sparring, feuding Cartoonists Ham (Joe Palooka) Fisher and Al (Li'l Abner) Capp knocked each other out of the ring last week. In New York Cartoonist Fisher was suspended from the 325-member National Cartoonists Society "for conduct unbecoming a member." The society's Ethics Committee accused Fisher of using "altered, tampered-with and . . . not a true reproduction" of Capp's cartoons in an effort to prove Capp slipped pornography into his drawings. Meanwhile, in Boston, Al Capp withdrew as a stockholder in the Massachusetts Bay Telecasters. Capp, who was confronted with the charge of pornography before the Federal Communications Commission in Washington this month (TIME, Feb. 14), decided that his battle with Fisher was injuring the chance of other stockholders' getting a Boston TV franchise. Said Capp: "Being involved in the internal dogfights of television was even more painful than watching TV."

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