Word: joes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once Upon a Mattress (book by Jay Thompson, Marshall Barer, Dean Fuller; music by Mary Rodgers; dances by Joe Layton) is a cocktail-hour version of the children's-hour fairy story, The Princess on the Pea. The princess, as every pre-TV schoolchild recalls, is a lady so sensitive that she can feel a pea through a great thickness of mattresses, thereby passes the test of royalty and may marry the prince. Mattress' bookmakers offer odds that there was more to this yam than met the eye of Hans Christian Andersen. Apart from the boob-catching title...
Thigh Noon. In Clinton, S.C., when Joe Spillers and Edgar Ballew tried to see who could beat the other to the draw, neither man got his pistol out of its holster, each shot himself...
Qualification for Office. In Komensky, Wis., after being elected town constable, Joe Payer had to put off assuming the duties of his new office until he served a stretch in the state pen for breaking and entering into a filling-station...
Righthander Joe Loeb followed Fuller and finished the game, scattering eight hits, including a long homer by Captain Morse...
Pennsylvania coach Joe Burke called the Crimson crew "better than Yale the week before." An important object of Saturday's race is to choose seedings for next week's Eastern Sprints. On the basis of its decisive victory, the Crimson should be first...