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Word: gened (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collegiate final round of the U.S. Public Links Championship at Hershey, Pa., L.S.U. Sophomore Don Essig, 18, was far too steady for S.M.U.'s Gene Towry, 28, won by an impressive 6 and 5 and earned an automatic invitation to the National Amateur in September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Aug. 12, 1957 | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

Lights & Lies. At first Leona tearfully denied all. but the tears got her nowhere: her husband, Air Force Staff Sergeant Gene Ennis, 28, stationed at Baltimore, confirmed it; so did Ennis' mother in nearby Crisfield, Md.; so did Leona's mother in Dallas. At length Leona turned in her crown (to Charlotte Sheffield, Miss Utah) and confessed that she had done it all because "we desperately needed money to buy clothes and shoes for our two small children [aged 3 and 2]. My husband makes only $300 a month, and we owe so many bills." Then that story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Stairway to the Stars | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

Mary Leona Ennis (her real name) is only 18. Even at 13, she was a lovely, ambitious doll. Handsome Airman Gene Ennis began dating her in 1952, married her in 1954. Though Gene was a well-liked, hard-working Air Forceman (monthly pay: $370.90) Mary Leona yearned as always for the excitement of bright lights, attention and luxury. She studied modeling, parceled the kids out to friends and relatives, then jumped at Maryland's beauty contest and the chance for Miss U.S.A. Husband Gene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Stairway to the Stars | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

Kiss & Dismay. At week's end Mary Leona went back to Baltimore. Gene gave her a dignified kiss and took her to a press conference. There, in response to a newsman's question, Mary admitted that she had been married once before-at 14, to another airman-but that the marriage was annulled after one day. Said she: "I'm through telling lies. Believe you me, it wasn't worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Stairway to the Stars | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...pushbutton general (hammishly caricatured by Michael Redgrave) to pinpoint them, even outwit his dread Operation Meatloaf ("Not intended for use until the Red army is actually in Trafalgar Square"). Amusing except when it pleads ponderously for international understanding, The Happy Road eventually reunites everybody in Paris, hints that Gene and Barbara will henceforth travel on the family plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 1, 1957 | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

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