The Press: Don’t Marry That Gal!

For weeks Cartoonist Al Capp had sent his Li’l Abner chasing after Lena the Hyena, the ugliest woman alive. Just how ugly she was, Capp wisely left to his readers’ imaginations. Every time she appeared, a big “DELETED” showed where her face should have been.

Besieged by readers with their own ideas of someone too terrible to see, the Omaha World-Herald put up a modest prize. In one week it received 3,008 sketches. The winner (see cut) was by John P. Morton, 20, who is studying for the Catholic priesthood.