Word: ann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last the girls, in white ball gowns, paraded across a tangle of TV cables for M.C. Bert Parks ("Aren't they all perfectly beautiful, ladeezandgennimun?"). The Cerfs and the Harts, with seven other judges, voted. The tearful winner: Miss Mississippi (Mary Ann Mobley, 21; 34½-22-35). As he packed his swimsuit and prepared to leave Atlantic City, Playwright Hart's heartfelt beach comment still hung in the air: "We're God's fools...
Born. To Singing Actress Anne Jeffreys, 35, and Actor Robert Sterling, 41, the ghost husband and wife in TV's Topper series: their second child, second son (he has a daughter by a previous marriage to Actress Ann Sothern); in Burbank, Calif. Name: Robert Dana. Weight...
...were the first fired. In Nottingham, a textile city of 312,000, where Negroes constitute less than 1% of the population, they make up 20% of the unemployed. Fist fights between whites and Negroes have become a common Saturday night feature in Nottingham's slum district around St. Ann's Well Road, an area noted for petty crime, poverty and prostitution. Last month a gang of white Teddy boys jumped a West Indian laborer and beat him with fists and clubs. A few nights later, another white gang beat up and robbed two Negro workers. The white wife...
Emptied Pubs. The pubs on St. Ann's Well Road last week were filled with edgy whites and Negroes. At Chase Tavern a young Negro drew angry mutters when he entered with a white girl. At closing time a band of Negroes came down the road. As they neared the pub, one of several white loungers called: "What are those black bastards looking at us for?" With shouts of "Get them!" the Negroes descended, knives flashing, left two white men writhing on the ground. Within minutes, as nearby pubs emptied, fighting became general. Negroes and whites smashed bottles, grabbed...
...Married. Ann Miller (real name: Lucille Ann Collier), 35, leggy, Texas-born dancing cinemactress (Kiss Me Kate), and longtime (since 1947) bachelor girl, who once frankly admitted that she was hunting a man, said "it would help if I could find a Texan with a few oil wells"; and William P. Moss Jr., 38, millionaire Texas oilman; both for the second time (his first: Oldtime Cinemoppet Jane Withers); in La Jolla, Calif...