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...weeks Cartoonist Al Capp had sent his Li'l Abner chasing after Lena the Hyena, the ugliest woman alive. Just how ugly she was, Capp wisely left to his readers' imaginations. Every time she appeared, a big "DELETED" showed where her face should have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Don't Marry That Gal! | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

Fans of the Li'l Abner comic strip last week recognized the unmistakable face of Frank Sinatra. He promised Daisy Mae Scragg that he would sing her song: Li'l Abner, Don't Marry That Girl. Objective: to prevent Abner Yokum from marrying Lena the Hyena from Lower Slobbovia. To Abner readers it was no more unusual than most of Creator Al Capp's fantasies -until Sinatra last week actually sang the song on his Wednesday night show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Daisy Mae's Friends | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

Just to please Li'l Abner, Capp had Gooch come through. From "Frank Half-buck, the great explorer," he heard about "Lena, the hyena from Lower Slobbovia." Because the very sight of her turned men's spines to jelly, she had to be (so far, at least) an offstage horror. The trouble she would make only handsome, happy Al Capp, who makes more than $150,000 a year out of such antics, could tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lena v. Gravel Gertie | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...they have tortured. Side by side with obscene French pictures they carry sentimental photographs of their wives and children. They are "libertines, Sodomites, perverts" who think nothing of wearing the bloodstained underwear of the juvenile victims they have raped. German women represent the "greedy, drooling snout of a German hyena." Ehrenburg, the Soviet's most widely read writer, believes that Russians have been vastly hardened and strengthened by their conflict with the invaders, but he doubts that the Germans can ever be educated back to sanity. "Fuse bombs," he muses, "leave a good impression on the average German mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Invaders | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

...There was that damned hyena . . . this intoxicated harridan, waiting for the first person to come out," she explained later. "It was too bad it was me." Miss Thompson, awaiting her cab, started on her sidewalk neighbor: "My good woman. . . ." The blonde rejoined with a kick to the stomach, got a push in the face. The blonde bit Miss Thompson's right index finger, jumped in a cab and scooted away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Bejeweled Hyena | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

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