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Word: ann (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unbothered by blustery Florida weather, California's Barbara Romack, 24, relaxed and thought about her approaching marriage to Golf Pro Buddy Porter. She also played the best golf of her career, beat Florida's Ann Middlemas, 16, by an easy 5-and-4 in the Florida East Coast women's amateur at St. Augustine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Mar. 18, 1957 | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...educational TV stations became a network this week to promote their most ambitious experiment: five weekly series-in literature, geography, mathematics, government and music-created and broadcast live from Manhattan by NBC. The cost of $600,000 will be shared equally by NBC and Michigan's Ann Arbor Educational TV and Radio Center. Some of the projected shows, to be seen on weekdays from 6:30 to 7 p.m. for 13 weeks, sound tempting enough to lure plenty of viewers from commercial channels. Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Keeping Awake | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

Reed is not certain that its system is best, but the Dean of Students, Ann W. Shepard, writes, "While I frequently have real doubts of the wisdom of our closed grades, I still feel they probably do as much as can be done to under-emphasize what is after all an arbitrary symbol of an instructor's best estimate...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: The Grading System: Its Defects Are Many | 3/12/1957 | See Source »

...Manhattan's staid Hotel Plaza, veteran Cinemactress-TV Comedienne Ann (Private Secretary) Sothern, 47, perplexed by billows of smoke that rolled from the fireless fireplace of her 14th-floor suite, opened her windows and sounded the alarm. Firemen appeared, then rushed down twelve stories to learn that a guest in a second-floor apartment, after igniting some logs in its fireplace, doused them on observing that the flue was all but clogged. The absent tenant of the lower suite: Architectitan Frank Lloyd Wright, 87, a great fireplace fancier, who has also been known to prohibit smoking by people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 11, 1957 | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...even good dialogue to go with the pictures. In New York, Call Girl Nella ("Don't Call Me Madam") Bogart went on to brag about how the buyers she entertained for a General Electric wholesaler responded by ordering "carloads" of appliances (TIME, March 4). In Washington, Seattle Madam Ann Thompson told senators (see below) that even with support from the Teamsters' Union (membership: 1,400,000), a bawdyhouse chain would not pay in Portland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Headline of the Week | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

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