Word: ever
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After husking a torrid version of Lover, Come Back to Me, Secretarial Student Pat Williams, 18, went "numb" with astonishment upon hearing herself acclaimed. Winning the beauty derby over nine white finalists, the well-stacked (36-24½-37) new Miss Sacramento, first Negro ever to wear the local crown, now aspires to the Miss California and Miss America titles...
...sized photograph of the Boston Symphony, plans to invite passers-by in to conduct behind closed doors. Actually, home conducting may be a healthy thing, according to Manhattan Psychoanalyst Dr. Edmund Bergler: it provides the amateur with sublimating relief from the gnawing "infantile megalomania" that afflicts every man who ever wanted to lift a baton...
...Harry J. Alvis told the American College of Physicians meeting in Chicago that the rate of submarine mental breakdowns "is much lower than among the rest of the military population." As chief of the Navy's submarine doctors, Captain Alvis had one answer known to any man who ever underwent pigboat training: all submariners are volunteers, and not every volunteer becomes a submariner. So scrupulous is the selection process that less than 1% leave the service after winning coveted dolphins. As a result, submariners are unusually bright and well-motivated men, "rarely in conflict with authority or each other...
...have looked strange, but there on the TV screen was Bing Crosby extolling the virtues of a kitchen crammed with American Gas Association appliances. Other times, other channels, John Wayne, Rock Hudson and even Zsa Zsa Gabor clutched Gillette razors, while Teresa Wright praised Scott Paper. Ever since Jack Benny came on saying "JellO again," radio and TV stars have plugged away at their sponsors' commercials, but never before have so many Hollywood big shots-some of whom otherwise shun TV-been available for commercial spieling...
...Ever Heard? Baron Clements saw his first bullfight when he was ten, and "right then I decided that what I wanted to do most was fight bulls." Writing in the sixth grade on his life's ambition, he drew an F-minus and a stern note from his teacher: "Baron, I expect you to stay in this afternoon and write a reasonable theme. Who ever heard of people these days being bullfighters...