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...Mae West watched with haughty interest as two Brooklyn street gangs-the Eagle Nesters and the Red Hooks-fought a battle over her charms. Nearly 50 years later, men were still at it. While Mae was touring U.S. nightclubs in 1956 with a troupe of male weight lifters, she was again an interested onlooker (or so she says in her autobiography) as one of her musclemen punched another in the jaw in a quarrel over her beldame favors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURLESQUE: The Peeled Grape | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...years between, as she tells it in Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It (Prentice-Hall; $3.95), Mae had perfected her inimitable style: the silken walk that suggests the meshing of superbly machined parts, the languid glance, the., lethargic but meaningful gestures, and the tantalizing drawl employed with devastating effect in sybaritic phrases such as "Beulah, peel me a grape," or "Come up 'n' see me sometime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURLESQUE: The Peeled Grape | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...Manhattan's Hotel Plaza, Lisa was getting away with it well enough to pack the house twice a night. Supplied with special material by Writer-Husband Bob Wells (a co-producer of Dinah Shore's TV show last season), Lisa presents the most elaborate nightclub act since Mae West lost Mickey Hargitay and his bar bells to Jayne Mansfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: In Her Fashion | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...Moslem formula of telling them "Get out" three times before witnesses. Helen Wilson sailed home for the more laborious Western process of divorcing her husband, married the Sultan later that year, and honeymooned with him in the U.S., where the Sultan was equally affable with President Franklin Roosevelt and Mae West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALAYA: Shrubs in the Fairway | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...ANNA MAE GAGNIER COUMBOURAS Springfield, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 6, 1959 | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

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