Word: bess
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...consumer affairs, many of them headed by attractive and energetic women with whom housewives identify easily. The national prototype is Mrs. Virginia Knauer, 54, a Philadelphia grandmother who served as Pennsylvania's consumer adviser and last April was chosen by President Nixon to head the federal consumer program. Bess Myerson Grant, the 1945 Miss America who is now New York City's commissioner of consumer affairs, recently sent inspectors out to test restaurant hamburgers. When nearly one-third of the burgers failed to meet the city's all-beef standards, Mrs. Grant complained loudly about "shamburgers," 156 people were subpoenaed...
Benton & Bowles has company. Kohler Advertising, for example, protested that its service has been sporadic for six weeks; the agency is demanding "reparations" for a $15,000 account that it claims it lost as a result. Bess Myerson Grant, New York City's Commissioner of Consumer Affairs, has gone farther. She has demanded a rate cut and a $100 million refund for phone subscribers...
Sunday, July 20 SOUNDS OF SUMMER (NET, 8-10 p.m.). Arthur Fiedler conducts the Boston Pops in a George Gershwin concert, including An American in Paris, Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra (with Pianist Earl Wild) and selections from Porgy and Bess...
...great American hot dog found a champion last month in Mrs. Virginia Knauer, President Nixon's adviser on consumer affairs. Now that other national staple, the hamburger, has picked up an ally in Bess Myerson Grant, New York City's Commissioner of Consumer Affairs. The onetime (1945) Miss America has discovered that burger beef, like hot-dog meat, is being adulterated with all sorts of things: soy proteins, starchy flour, cereal and chemical additives. As a matter of fact, 156 out of 421 New York restaurants checked by her 46 inspectors were suspected of serving "shamburgers...
After a limosine ride form his home in nearby Independence, Truman, accompanied by his wife Bess, will take off from Kansas City Municipal Airport aboard an Ozark jet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday (Central Daylight Time), sources reported. Some two hours later, he will land in Boston, in time to get a good night's sleep before receiving his degree from Harvard on Thursday morning...