75 YRS AGO THIS WEEK: Boys are on the run from girls in 201 colleges on Sadie Hawkins Day! http://bit.ly/1zQzysH

75 YRS AGO THIS WEEK: Boys are on the run from girls in 201 colleges on Sadie Hawkins Day! http://bit.ly/1zQzysH

"The astonishing growth of Li'l Abner in five years from and unknown comic-strip character to a national figure, followed by more that 20,000,000 readers of 400 newspapers from coast to coast, is a phenomenon of modern syndicated journalism. The wildfire extension of Sadie Hawkins Day as an unofficial U.S. collegiate holiday is a testimonial to the delights of co-education."

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