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...Ugliest Aspect. At Eccles, in Lancashire, one Jack Piggott drew six months' imprisonment for smashing a Jewish-owned shop window and leading a crowd of 700, some of whom shouted what few Britons had ever been expected to shout: "Hitler was right." At Holyhead, a laborer was fined for smashing the windows of two Jewish shops. In London, two women arrested for pitching bricks through Oxford Street windows said: "We did it because the owner is a Jew." In Wales, signs appeared on a school wall reading: "Jewish murderers" and "Hitler was right." At Kingstanding, near Birmingham, hooligans stole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dark Tide | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...Ugliest city: Knoxville, "intense, concentrated, degrading ugliness," mixed with a backwoods piety that allows no hard liquor, no Sunday baseball, no Sunday movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gunther's America | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...Thanked Arkansas' Polk County Possum Club for sending him its prize possum. (The club had also sent its ugliest, scrawniest possum to John L. Lewis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Happy Days | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

Cautious cables from the never-never land of Lower Slobbovia (TIME, Oct. 7) described the immigrant as "age 18, single, female of some species, maybe human." This week the displaced Slobbovian, billed as the ugliest woman alive, landed in the U.S. and in the funnies. Her name: Lena the Hyena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The (Sob!) Ugliest | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...Lena was too ugly for him to draw. He asked the 27,000,000 readers of Li'l Abner to show their notions of how she looked. It turned out to be the comic promotion stunt of the year: everybody seemed to want to draw the ugliest woman alive, and a million repulsive drawings came in. Capp and three strong-stomached judges (Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff, Salvador Dali) picked the worst of the lot (see cut), awarded her creator, Basil Wolverton, a Vancouver, Wash, comic-book artist, a $500 prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The (Sob!) Ugliest | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

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