Word: mae
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gone from London: Mae West, homeward bound after nine months. She had gained 6 lbs. on austerity meals, said she -which brought her up to 126, said...
...Then Mae Reuther ran for towels, knelt, tried to stop the flow of her husband's blood. People burst into the kitchen. A neighborhood doctor arrived. Reuther said wildly: "Those dirty rats had to shoot a fellow in the back." An ambulance crew pushed in, carried him off to Grace Hospital...
Walter Reuther, the cocky, redheaded president of the C.I.O. United Automobile Workers, is a model husband. He neither drinks nor smokes, hates to travel without his auburn-haired wife Mae, and listens to the family phonograph when other men go to nightclubs. When a meeting of the U.A.W. executive council keeps him in downtown Detroit after the dinner hour, he never fails to telephone, always tries to get home for an icebox snack instead of eating in a restaurant...
...Robbed: Mae West. Somebody got into her dressing room at London's Prince of Wales theater (where she is packing them in with Diamond Lil), and made off with $16,000 worth of diamond jewelry...
...Atlanta packing-plant employees, Norman Plumley, 20, a wienie worker, and Doris Mae Wilson, 22, an egg packer, met while walking out on strike. Love bloomed; eleven days later, while a juke box played I Don't Want Her, You Can Have Her, She's Too Fat For Me, they were married on the picket line by a blind preacher...