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Word: mae (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old widow with three daughters to look after (two are step-daughters), she brings home a fair chunk of sugar-cured bacon. But she always has. She was sister Eileen in Wonderful Town, and she won a Tony award as Daisy Mae in Broadway's Li'l Abner. Early in her show business experience, she was taught how to go for the green. As a dappled-taffy blonde out of rural Pennsylvania, Tenafly, N.J., and the Juilliard School of Music, she appeared on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts years ago, hoping to win the evening with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightclubs: Tax Missionary | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

...this long, mocking novel those little flowers are hero and heroine: Randolph Sudderland Shepherdson III, a rich, stupendously naive, goodhearted young man; and his fiancee, Laurie Mae Lytle, a beautiful, innocent, saintly young schoolteacher. They will be blissfully happy, living on love and Randy's $50,000-a-year income from his inheritance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: End As a Fairy Tale | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

Satyr & Dwarf. Then to ensure that wedding bells will not toll, the judge imports a snake-eyed satyr named Harry Diadem. Harry is 25 and has scored, as he puts it, with 603 different women since puberty. He is confident that Laurie Mae will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: End As a Fairy Tale | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...buzzard is now full-grown and he flaps up an enormous storm. Also whirling about in the tornado are a superhumanly powerful dwarf who lurks in treetops and confuses Laurie Mae with his dead mother; an ex-cop who loves Jesus, liquor and sleeping with daughter, but not in that order; and a skinny blackmailer with a fat tootsie named Sugar Dolly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: End As a Fairy Tale | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...steel-rimmed-glasses granny (Irene Ryan) is cordon bluegrass when it comes to cooking hawg jowls, fat back, corn pone, mustard greens, salted-down possum belly, squirrel shanks, crow gizzards, and boiled toad. Her granddaughter Elly May resembles Al Capp's Daisy Mae from head to toes, notably in profile. She is a tomboy, but she somehow wears Levi's as if they were a bikini. Actress Donna Douglas is typecast in the part. A few years ago she was the best hot-pepper eater in Baywood, La., where she also played boys' football, pitched in softball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: On the Cob | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

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