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...more good looks than their 29 sisters representing the beauty of their respective areas. Poured into white bathing suits, the girls swiveled decorously down a runway under the judges' fastened, clinical eyes. Then, with the pomp of a St. James's coronation, the winner was crowned: Leona Gage (Miss Maryland), 21, a dark-haired stunner (5 ft. 9½ in., 118 Ibs.; 36-23-36). The prizes: a $1,000 wardrobe, a $2,000 contract with a cosmetics firm, a house trailer, a European trip, and a chance to compete with 32 other girls...
...ticket, borrowed a gown for the Long Beach judging. When she won the big prize she was down to her last $2. "I'm not manstruck," she said. "I'm not marrying until I'm 26." And then the roof fell in on Leona Gage: the judges learned that she was married...
...nightclub offer; a Hollywood club wanted Mary Leona, and so did Movie Producer "Jungle Sam'' Katzman. Television's Dave Garroway and The $64,000 Question put in their bids. But cagey Ed Sullivan, who likes to be fastest with the most, did it again. Mary Leona Gage Ennis signed up for the Sullivan program...
...made major-general of all the Royal militia in the province, although he had espoused the revolutionary cause only two years before. Upon his promotion, Brattle for some reason became deeply devoted to the mother government. When it was discovered in 1774 that he was supplying General Gage with information, he found it expedient to retire to Boston...
...this group will be Walker Cisler, president of the Detroit Edison Co. and a real private-enterprise pioneer in the field of commercial atomic power. Others on this panel will be: former AECommissioner Eugene Zuckert (who will talk on atomic energy as a new potential for investment); William P. Gage, president of Grace Chemical Co. (who will speak on atomic energy and agriculture); J. Carlton Ward Jr., president of Vitro Corp. of America, and A. C. Monteith, a vice president of Westinghouse Electric Corp. (who will go into the subject of industrial applications of atomic energy). Professor Joaqqim Costa Ribeiro...