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...Chicago, when the National Association of Bedding Manufacturers offered buxom Mae West the title of "Mattress Queen of 1950," plus $1,000 to do a two-minute movie sleeping on a mattress, Mae declined: "It's not dignified. I can't accept, because my honor's at stake...
Died. Billy B. Van,* 80, palavering onetime vaudeville comic, who toured with Heavyweight Champion James J. ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett, retired 25 years ago to manufacture soap, plugged chewing gum on the radio, emerged from retirement last year to play in Mae West's Diamond Lil; of a heart ailment; in Newport...
...original citizens of Dogpatch-Li'l Abner Yokum, his unbathed parents, and that delectable hill filly, Daisy Mae Scragg -are human enough to have their own poor but burning ambitions and prejudices. They are also so incredibly innocent that they can be duped by a child. The man or woman who does not gain some sense of superiority from their gullibility probably does not exist; and millions of red-blooded young men have clenched their fists with exasperation at Abner's failure to respond to the lovesick Daisy Mae...
Capp Enterprises not only licenses the manufacture of such direct offshoots of the strip as Shmoos and Kigmies, but more than a hundred other products, including Li'l Abner orangeade, Daisy Mae blouses, Li'l Abner corncob pipes and Li'l Abner skonk hats. A good guess at the gross profit...
...brilliance in her bag, but she seldom strayed from par or from the fairways. In her own steady fashion, the lanky North Dakota girl had won seven of the nine tournaments she entered this year, and she was coolly bent on taking No. 10. In the final, while little Mae made most of the spectacular shots, Beverly Hanson held to her sure, unshowy game, was 4 up after 18. On the 32nd, where Mae topped her brassie shot and recovered for a par 5, methodical Beverly was on the green in 2, putted out for a birdie...