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Something about the gangling, towheaded kid impressed Wiley Post that day in 1933. It was in Tulsa, and the one-eyed veteran pilot was riding high on the fame of his solo flight around the world in the famed Winnie Mae in 186 hours and 49 minutes. Flyer Post gave the kid a piece of the Winnie Mae's fabric, and even autograptfed it for him. Said young Bill Odom brashly: "I'm gonna fly around the world myself some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Towhead's Ambition | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...gone to sleep; he had a vague memory of terror, of feeling his car plunge through a fence and sail out into the gulley. He twisted on the hard ground until his back was raw and his wounded hand throbbed with pain. Then he thought of his wife, Mae, at home in Richmond, and he lay still and wept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Five Days | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

Supposedly 'a parallel in tempo to John Gay's 'Beggar's Opera'" (it will be entitled "Beggar's Holiday" during the New York run), the play deals with the insouciant exploits of one Macheath, a lady-killing crook. During the course of the show, Mae holes up at Miss Jenny's maison de joie, marries Polly Peachum--the daughter of a humorously crooked politician, and beguiles the keys to his cell door from the jailer's daughter--all in order to avoid the inevitable ending which awaits him in the arms of the electric chair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 12/11/1946 | See Source »

High Blood Pressure. On the morning after the storm, many a Democrat struggled out of his Mae West and decided that something might be built out of such fine wreckage before 1948. Some tried to deny that there had been a Republican flood at all - just a heavy dew - cried that a small shift in the vote would have made all the difference. But Republicans, who had been saying the same things themselves for 14 long years, were confident that the salvage job would be a lot harder than it looked. They had been there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Salvage Job | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

Double Indemnity. In Colorado Springs, Olive Mae Mulica fell down a manhole, suffered minor injuries, refused to sue, asked only for a new pair of nylons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 18, 1946 | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

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