Dogpatch is planning to invade Harvard and carry off 13 of Cambridge's "pure, shy young bachelors." The Trojan horse which will lure the Harvard men from their academic retreats is Moonbeam McSwine, an earthy young lady of astounding physical proportions.
The whole insidious plot designed to demean the fair name of Harvard will transpire in the comic strip "Li'1 Abner," and was hatched by the cartoon's creator, Al Capp, a man with a cause.
Capp has set out to rescue the woman-hood of Dogpatch from the fate of losing Sadie Hawkin's Day, a Dogpatch holiday which has reached its full, horrible flowering in the backwoods matriarchy of Capp's nightmares.
Local reaction to the onslaught has been mixed. A "try me" attitude is predominant among Harvardians contacted so far, but Radcliffe is reported to be forming an anti-McSwine Protective Association.
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