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...discussed it with Sinatra and friends. Charlie Ross, president of Barton Music Co., agreed to publish the song. Songsmith Sammy Stept (Don't Sit under the Apple Tree, etc.) wrote the music. Capp promised to draw the radio characters straight if they in turn would treat "Daisy Mae" and "Li'l Abner" as real people. Radio, which often lives in a comic-strip world, did not have to change pace...
Fans of the Li'l Abner comic strip last week recognized the unmistakable face of Frank Sinatra. He promised Daisy Mae Scragg that he would sing her song: Li'l Abner, Don't Marry That Girl. Objective: to prevent Abner Yokum from marrying Lena the Hyena from Lower Slobbovia. To Abner readers it was no more unusual than most of Creator Al Capp's fantasies -until Sinatra last week actually sang the song on his Wednesday night show...
During the years in which he was forging his intellectual reputation, Professor McIlwain, known informally as "Mae," established himself as one of the faculty's most enthusiastic and unorthodox tennis players. Though he has not played during the past three or four years, he denies that he has given up the game. During his temporary abandonment of tennis, classical music and the search for old books compete for his leisure hours...
...Mae's" black pipe, charred and chewed, is almost as famous as his classroom ritual "Now you can see at once"--a hopeful, declaration usually followed by the most profound point of the day's lecture. His lectures are invariably provocative and stimulating, and his students can hardly escape acquiring his scholarly attitude...
...Died. Mae Busch, 49, early-day Keystone Comedy cinemactress and "versatile vamp" of the silent films; after long illness; in Hollywood...