Happy! - May 5

Subject: RE: Happy! - May 5
From: open mike
Date: 05 May 05 - 01:07 PM

feliz cinco de mayo
bueno

Subject: RE: Happy! - May 5
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 05 May 05 - 01:04 PM

Well, she did have her own song--in DT search for "Globe Trotting Nelly Bly"

Subject: Happy! - May 5
From: Abby Sale
Date: 05 May 05 - 08:15 AM


Happy Birthday!

Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman

was born 5/5/1867

(d1922)

As newswoman, Nelly Bly, she traveled around-the-world-in-72-days, finishing in 1890. (Verne's Le
tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours was published in 1873. I knew you'd ask.) She probably took
her name from the well-known song.

             cho: Hi, Nelly! Ho Nelly!
                  Listen, love, to me,
                  I'll sing for you and play for you
                  A dulcet melody.
  
          Nelly Bly has a voice like a turtle dove,
          I hear it in the meadow and I hear it in the grove.
          Nelly Bly has a heart warm as a cup of tea,
          And bigger than the sweet potatoes down in Tennessee.
  
                  "Nelly Bly," Stephen Foster
  

Likely her sometime appearance as the other woman in "Frankie & Johnie" is much later.

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