[78-L] Kate Smith stamp

[simmonssomer]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julian Vein" <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Kate Smith stamp


> l78rpm at aol.com wrote:
>> In a message dated 1/8/10 11:07:12 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>> lherault at bu.edu writes:
>>
>> Kate was  routinely kidded about her size/weight if the musical shorts 
>> I've
>> seen with  her are any indication.
>> Has anyone reflected on how she may have dealt with this  personally? 
>> To
>> be known and "beloved" by millions as a public  figure, and to be,
>> simultaneously, the object of constant derision?
>>
>> And now her image will be placed on a United States postage stamp --- a
>> remarkable honor. And the fat jokes continue.
>>
>> pc
>>
>> _______________________________________________
> Strange, Mildred Bailey never suffered that indignity, except as I
> recall some banter with Chubby Jackson.
>
>      Julian Vein

Yeah..but she was proud of her tiny feet so ..fat...was apparently not her 
issue.

Al S.