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Cautious cables from the never-never land of Lower Slobbovia (TIME, Oct. 7) described the immigrant as "age 18, single, female of some species, maybe human." This week the displaced Slobbovian, billed as the ugliest woman alive, landed in the U.S. and in the funnies. Her name: Lena the Hyena...
Cartoonist Al Capp, who invented Lena to rib fellow Cartoonist Chester (Dick Tracy) Gould's horrifying collection of comic characters, insisted that his own Lena was too ugly for him to draw. He asked the 27,000,000 readers of Li'l Abner to show their notions of how she looked. It turned out to be the comic promotion stunt of the year: everybody seemed to want to draw the ugliest woman alive, and a million repulsive drawings came in. Capp and three strong-stomached judges (Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff, Salvador Dali) picked the worst...
...lucky emigré: Lena the Hyena (pearl of Lower Slobbovian womanhood, who is so ugly that she is kept behind an iron curtain of seclusion lest men, seeing...
What intelligent or legitimate connection can there be between Lena Horne's songs or Gypsy Rose Lee's navel and the election campaigns of responsible officials and progressive legislators? Jo Davidson's and Hannah Dorner's substitution of theatrical ballyhoo for concrete, vital political issues is a stupid and sordid insult to the voters of this nation. The work of other such ICCASPeople as Daily Worker Writer Howard Fast readily attests to Communist Front activity and possible Moscow affiliations...
...ICCASP's Manhattan and Hollywood chapters might have sprung directly from a mad director's loveliest dream. Frank Sinatra is one of its hardest-working speakers. It can call on Gypsy Rose Lee to bare her navel and William Rose Benét to write a script. Lena Horne will sing at any rally and Walter Huston will recite the Gettysburg Address. Fredric March belongs, and so do Eddie Cantor, Charles Boyer, Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Charles Laughton and Robert Young...