Word: maes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Navy headquarters stopped chuckling long enough to release the story last week. The corvette Mayflower, called "Daisy Mae"* by her men, left Halifax early in the war to herd 75 cargo ships across the Atlantic. Her only weapons: eight depth charges, six rifles, one Tommy gun, one Lewis gun, three revolvers. But the "Daisy Mae" also had plenty of nerve...
Somehow, deep under water, he and his aircraft parted company. He pulled the strings to inflate his Mae West, found himself buoyed upwards. Then he bumped into the slimy underside of the carrier, some 30 feet under water. In a moment more he was being churned in the Niagara of the carrier's wake; somehow he had hurtled past the propellers' blades...
...sell bonds in English. I'll sell them in Swedish." She divulged that she had dreamed for two and a half years of a Schrafft's hot fudge sundae, found they were no longer served because of the war. She planned to see Mae West's Catherine Was Great on Broadway, explained: "I want to see if there's anything I can learn from her. It may come in handy sometime...
...kiss: "It's even better when you help." Besides good lines, there are good situations and songs for Newcomer Bacall. She does a wickedly good job of sizing up male prospects in a low bar, growls a louche song more suggestively than anyone in cinema has dared since Mae West in She Done Him Wrong...
...Mae West, asked by a reporter from Yank how she felt about the pasting the critics had given her show, Catherine Was Great (TIME, Aug. 14), gave a forthright reply...