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Article: She's just cut out that way Kingfield woman keeps paper dolls alive through her publications
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- December 20, 2005
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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 ...