The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.
For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.

