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...Called a "Mae West" by British airmen because of the luxuriant curves which keep fliers afloat if they come down...
Sadie Hawkins is an ugly manchaser in the comic strip Li'I Abner, which deals with life in the hillbilly village of Dogpatch. Other characters: Li'l Abner, a handsome hayseed; Daisy Mae, his shapely, briefly-clad admirer; Pansy Yokum, his mother; Lonesome Polecat and Loathsome Polecat, Indians. The idea for Sadie Hawkins Day at Yale belonged to Sophomore John Maclean. Having heard that such celebrations had already been held in several freshwater colleges, Maclean persuaded fellow News editors to invite girls and turn them loose in Dogpatch costumes to chase Yale men in Yale's Bowl...
...With their men in tow, they marched into the Bowl in a chilly rain. But there was to be no manchasing in the Yale Bowl. At the last moment, the News had cold feet. Sole evidence of Sadie Hawkins Day in the Bowl was an undergraduate representing Daisy Mae, who suddenly dashed on the field at halftime in the midst of a humorless procession. They cavorted a few minutes before the silent, unsmiling stands, then slunk away...
...announcement, Nazi bombs landed so close to Canterbury Cathedral they shattered all its substitute stained glass. Shopping in Canterbury's streets, Lydia Cecily Hill, 27, cabaret friend of the opulent Sultan of Johore, 67, was slain. The Sultan, who is acquainted also with the Franklin D. Roosevelts and Mae West, expressed deep sorrow and consoled Mother Hill. She well knew that the only reason he isn't her son-in-law was prudish pressure by the sahibs of Singapore, where the Sultan met the Hills, and by the British Government (TIME...
...output of commercial jazz and symphonic music, plenty of country folk, and a great many juke-box operators, were more interested in the latest offerings of Messrs. Satherly and Kapp. Decca, which identifies such discs simply as "hillbilly" and "race" (Negro), had such items as Right Now and Essie Mae Blues by The Honey Dripper (Roosevelt Sykes); Pocket Knife Blues and Machine Gun Blues by Peetie Wheatstraw, "The Devil's Son-in-Law"; Cuckoo Cuckoo Chicken Rhythm and Birthday Party by Doctor Sausage and His Five Pork Chops. Okeh, which more elaborately describes this division as "Novelty Dance, Country...