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...carried his political opinions over into his own comic strip field. Capp flatly declared that "Orphan Annie is not a Communist," but was not so favorable to other strips. He revealed that eight weeks from now Daisy Mae's favorite comic strip will appear in "Li'l Abner" entitled "Mary Horm, America's Favorite Busybody." He described "Rex Morgan, M.D." as the comic strip that tells you how to enjoy leprosy, rather than how to cure...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: Capp on Politics Enlivens Forum; Vellucci Praised | 3/9/1957 | See Source »

...show begins on a somewhat regrettable note when the Master of Ceremonies cries, "This is your life..." Clara Mae is then bustled stagewards to watch her life travel from Gruel, Wyoming to Radcliffe College, where Clara proceeds to make good in the social "supermarket." The first act takes Clara through the Radcliffe Library, a jolly-up and a few other slow starters. What saves the act from becoming disastrously tiresome is the free swinging chorus girls (sixteen, in charming red shorts, weighing a collective ton) and the show-stopping humor of Liz Stearns as the charcoalgrey, knee-soxed intellectual...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Drumbeats and Song | 3/9/1957 | See Source »

MORTGAGE HELP is coming from Congress. While Senate is considering boost, House voted a $500 million increase in amount Federal National Mortgage Assn. can borrow from Treasury to buy U.S.-insured mortgages from private lenders. Bill will tide over Fannie Mae until June 30, by which time Eisenhower Administration hopes to hike agency's borrowing power by $1 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...leopards. Turning a pastel into a circus poster, Tallulah, her personality crackling like a whip, her voice sounding like a bull fiddle, gurgles and snorts and snarls. It is all on occasion forceful, but in general it may well set a record for incongruity that only something like Mae West as Snow White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 11, 1957 | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

Perry Como Show (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). Guests: Helen Traubel. Peter (Li'l Abner) Palmer, Edith (Daisy Mae) Adams, Joey Bishop (color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Jan. 28, 1957 | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

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