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...seventh floor of the hotel is reserved for women on weekends, and a "house mother" is employed: Mary Wooley, who works at Radcliffe during the week. The rates for single rooms in the hotel on weekends are about one-half as high as the regular rate...
...What'd He Say? consists of a series of bewildered questioners trying to ungarble answers that invariably degenerate into taped gobbledygook just when it looks as if they were going somewhere. The most successful of the species, and the one that everybody wants to imitate, is Singer Sheb Wooley's Purple People Eater, which is not only the fastest-selling novelty in five years but something of a national crisis...
...nine weeks Purple People Eater has sold 1,500,000 copies. As everybody within range of a radio knows, it is about a "one-eyed, one-horned" creature "acomin' out of the sky" to "get a job in a rock-'n'-roll band." Oklahoma-born Singer Wooley, 37, who has written hits such as Too Young to Tango and appeared in westerns (High Noon) as a badman, got his inspiration from a gag riddle posed by the child of a friend: "What has one eye, one horn, flies and eats people?" (Answer: a one-eyed, one-horned...
...cream. In Orlando, Fla. a campaign is directed at changing the name of a purple-and-silver train that comes through the town from West Coast Champion to The Purple People Eater. Record manufacturers are cranking out imitative disks as fast as they can make them, including Wooley's own sequel, Purple People Eater Plays Earth Music, Cuban Purple People Eater (in cha cha cha rhythm), The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor, Polka-Dotted Poliwampus (about a creature that eats Purple People Eaters) and Purple Herring Fresser (a Yiddish version). Disk jockeys all over the country have...
When, in 1864, a student stabbed a New Haven man to death. Yalies gathered firearms of every sort, congregated in two buildings, and dug in for a sizable siege. Furious townspeople rolled three cannon onto the Green, facing the buildings. President Wooley frustrated students not to sheet until fired upon, but then to shoot accurately. However, police managed to quash the oncoming slaughter...