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Centerfielder Bob Smith started the Crimson's rally with a single. Ray Mae-saka followed with another one-baser, and when Chuck Wade pinch-hit another single, the visitors had the bases loaded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Purple Rolls Over Crimson Nine for Easy 13 to 3 Win | 5/27/1952 | See Source »

...Ottawa, Parliament heard that books by Joseph Stalin and Mae West had been barred from Canada. Typical objectionable works: Joe's Questions of Leninism and Mae's Diamond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Personal Preferences | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

...wonder if Al Capp realizes that his recent action [in marrying Li'l Abner to Daisy Mae] may force millions of red-blooded American boys to get married ? For years, Li'l Abner has been the bachelor's ideal. Now that he is married, only one course of action is open to us. Get hitched. Couldn't there be just one more miracle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 21, 1952 | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

...comic-strip world of Li'l Abner the unthinkable is always happening. But few readers ever expected the most unthinkable event of all: the ("gulp") marriage of Li'l Abner to Daisy Mae. Though Abner has been close enough to the altar to whiff the smoke from the cigar of self-made Magistrate Marryin' Sam, Cartoonist Al Capp always stepped in, in time's nick, with a save. Once, at the crucial moment, a gas explosion blasted Abner into a tree out of Daisy Mae's reach. Another time, after Preacher Sam had completed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Unthinkable | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...thing for me to do seemed to be to change completely, hoping that in another year the air would clear." Actually, Capp also has a more practical reason: the marriage opens up a new wealth of material. Asks Capp: "Now how will Abner, who has never worked, support Daisy Mae? Will they have a family? Who will boss the household...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Unthinkable | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

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