Article: She's just cut out that way Kingfield woman keeps paper dolls alive through her publications

When I was a child in the 1950s, I adored paper dolls. I was especially fond of Katy Keene comic books where, in each issue, I would find paper doll pages of Katy and her friends Bertha Bumples and K.O. Kelly, her archrival, Gloria Grandbilt, Randy Van Ronson, Errol Swoon and Sis and Billy.

I was such an admirer of Katy Keene that I would save my money until I had hoarded 50 cents. I would "send away" for large-size versions of Katy Keene paper dolls. They came all the way from California, and I would haunt the post office, peering into Box 81, which my family rented, in hopes of seeing the manila envelope in which Katy Keene paper dolls arrived. I would run home, grab the scissors and sit ...

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