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...brilliantly lit by warm Oriental stars as we hit the Yellow Sea and passed into the trickiest part of our trip-the long jaunt across the water. We put on our Mae Wests and settled down for the run that would bring us around midnight over Japan's biggest iron and steel works, on Kyushu Island. The senior gunner, Sergeant Allen, asked the pilot for permission to blow the guns: there was a chattering rattle all round us as Allen and his mates tested their powerful armament...
Winston Churchill, who wore a yellow Mae West, navy blue overcoat, Trinity House cap, saw two Spitfires down a Nazi bomber, saw himself depicted as an octopus on a Nazi propaganda poster...
...with their "Four-Flush Drummers from Chicago and St. Louis, smoking Horrid Cigars and talking about the Percentages of the League Teams." Before World War I thousands quoted the fable of the two sisters, upright Louella whose "Features did not seem to know the value of Team Work" and Mae, "short on Intelligence but long on Shape." Louella worked in a hat factory, and every Saturday night the-boss "crowded three dollars on her." Beautiful Mae married a wheat speculator, moved into a Sarcophagus on the Boulevard, hired Louella for $5 as Assistant Cook. (Moral: Industry and Perseverance bring...
...Mae West, in Manhattan to star in her forthcoming Catherine Was Great, vowed that she had read at least twelve books on the great 18th-Century Russian before writing the play. Mae explained that Catherine "was really a great woman, she wasn't so crazy about men," and added that the play would have "two of everything, and twice...
Horacio Guimares, a workman, lived in the village of Nilopolis,an hour's ride from Rio de Janeiro. Next door lived Ricardina Rosario da Silva, "Mae de Santo" (High Priestess) of a fetishistic, voodoo-like cult which Brazilians call "Macumba." Pious worshipers filled Ricardina's yard, clapped and stomped, chanted and sang, screamed and shouted outside Horacio's door...