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...estate in Manhasset, Long Island: "We just had a good time talking and looking around. All very nice people." Mamie Eisenhower, during Spring Week festivities at Brother-in-Law Milton Eisenhower's Pennsylvania State College, obligingly crowned Madeline Sharp of Herndon, Va. "Miss Penn State" then added a fillip by giving the winner a vigorous bear...
...give the case a final fillip, the defense couldn't find one of its witnesses, 19-year-old Grace Appel, an old East Side chum of Pat Ward (who was born Sandra Wisotsky). Not until the opposing lawyers had delivered their summations did Miss Appel appear in court, convoyed by Columnist Walter Winchell, who had thoughtfully extracted an exclusive interview before persuading her to come out of hiding. Unfortunately for the defense (and for Winchell), however, "Mystery Witness" Appel had nothing much to say, the chief mystery being why the defense had bothered to call...
Whether or not chlorophyll and related compounds get into the system and sweeten it, this rhyme* has got under the skins of chlorophyll enthusiasts and soured their dispositions. Last week Internist Franklin Howard Westcott, who did much to give chlorophyll its first fillip (TIME, July 31, 1950), got up before a Manhattan audience of drugmakers and complained...
...Night. Though some retail prices last week were down a little from last year (about $300 on a $5,000 coat), Utah's Mink Rancher David W. Henderson, president of the National Board of Fur Farm Organizations, thought the market was off to a good start. One fillip came from an unexpected source. Said Henderson, whose beady-eyed little Topaze breeders (see cut) are worth up to $600 apiece: "If anything, the Washington mink scandals helped the market by bringing the idea of mink coats more & more before the public." In Chicago,, the Miller Fur Co. was doing...
...News added its own fillip from its correspondent in Copenhagen who cabled: "Chris now is a girl I could have fallen in love with had I met her under different circumstances." At Bentwaters Air Force Base in England, reporters found a U.S. Air Force sergeant who said he had dated Christine six months ago. When they asked him for details, he obligingly observed: "She's got a personality that's hard to beat, and the best body of any girl I ever met." Many an editor and reporter found himself in the same fix as father Jorgensen...