Word: caroll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because Miss Universe contest--could not be present for the final judging, she left a sealed ballot with her vote to be opened at the finals at the Leverett House Dance after the Ohio football game. Her vote proved the deciding one as tall, brunette Carol Corby of New York City won by one vote over blonde Deirdre Hubbard...
...past some Miss Radcliffes have indeed complained of the burden associated with the crown. Sharon Jacobson '57, a close fried of Miss Corby, said she understood that Carol found her title made too many demands on her time. Miss Jacobson said that Miss 'Cliffe of '57 often complained that she never knew whether young men asked her out because they liked her or whether they simply wanted to say they had dated a "Miss Radcliffe...
...Married. Carol Elaine Channing, 35, raucous, outsized (5 ft. 9 in., 136 Ibs.) musicomedy zany whose who-me? expression and wild dancing wowed Broadway in 1949's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; and Charles Franklin Lowe, 38, Hollywood adman; she for the third time, he for the first; in Boulder City...
...point about Main Street was that Carol Kennicott knew that Gopher Prairie was full of philistines, but did not understand that Chanel No. 5 would never rout a gopher from its hole...
There was something of Babbitt in his creator, Sinclair Lewis, and there was something of Carol Kennicott in his first wife, Grace Hegger Lewis. Gracie was, Lewis once wrote, "all the good part of Carol." This lends an uncommon interest to what would otherwise be a commonplace biography-Grace's account of her years with...