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Radiant in all her buxom splendor, brimming over with her famous "sex personality," platinum-haired Mae West surged into Boston yesterday and at the CRIMSON'S invitation expressed her desire to see Harvard as it really...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mae West Tells a Few Things to Reporters After Arriving In Boston | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

Amidst flashing emeralds and pink chiffon in her dressing room at the RKO Theatre, Mae admitted she didn't go in much for purity, but what other people made out of her use of the English Language was more or less up to them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mae West Tells a Few Things to Reporters After Arriving In Boston | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

...college girl, on the other hand, is too concerned about her figure she might as well throw her books away, Mae believed. "When a girl is at school her mind should be on her studies. "It's physical culture that takes care of the beauty angle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mae West Tells a Few Things to Reporters After Arriving In Boston | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

Reason for Mr. Paley's perturbation was that the Federal Communications Commission (chairman: Frank McNinch, Franklin Roosevelt's "Trouble Shooter") began last week the investigation of radio which broadcasters have expected ever since Mae West's "script tease" in December. In charge of a committee to look into charges of monopoly was Paul Walker, a man whose name few people knew before he presented a report on American Tel. & Tel. last fortnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Perturbation & Comfort | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

When the Jones Brothers started the world's only Negro-owned department store they had to buy the property to get onto 47th Street. When dapper little Frank Howell Jr. started Mae's Dress Shoppe, he was forced to pay six-and-a-half months' rent in advance. This smoldered in Negro Howell's breast and continued to as he prospered. After Marva Trotter, fiancée of Prizefighter Joe Louis, bought her trousseau from Frank Howell, four other Mae's Dress Shoppes were started by rivals eager to cash in on the publicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business in Bronzeville | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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