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Hays, Anna Mae

(Encyclopedia) Hays, Anna Mae, 1920–2018, American general, b. Buffalo, N.Y., as Anna Mae Violet McCabe. Trained as a nurse (1941), she enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps (1942) and served in Assam,…

Hoppe, Willie

(Encyclopedia) Hoppe, Willie (William Frederick Hoppe)Hoppe, Williehŏpˈē [key], 1887–1959, American billiards champion, b. Cornwall, N.Y. He practiced billiards from a very early age and gave…

Sallie Mae

(Encyclopedia) Sallie Mae: see SLM Corporation.

Fannie Mae

(Encyclopedia) Fannie Mae: see Federal National Mortgage Association.

Ginnie Mae

(Encyclopedia) Ginnie Mae: see under Federal National Mortgage Association.

West, Mae

(Encyclopedia) West, Mae, 1893–1980, American stage and movie comedienne, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., as Mary Jane West. The unparalleled mistress of double entendre, West began in burlesque and continued in…

Murray, Mae

(Marie Adrienne Koenig) actressBirthplace: Portsmouth, Va.Born: 1890Died: 1965

Fields, W. C.

(Encyclopedia) Fields, W. C. (William Claude Fields), 1880–1946, American comic actor, b. Philadelphia as Claude William Dukenfield. He began his career as a juggler, and much later appeared in the…

burlesque

(Encyclopedia) burlesque burlesque bûrlĕskˈ [key] [Ital.,=mockery], form of entertainment differing from comedy…