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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Weary of beauty-queen contests, Jämsä strapped on a corset, fluffed up his flowing, brown hair, and entered himself in the annual Maid of the North contest in Rovaniemi, capital of Finnish Lapland. "I didn't drink then, was much slimmer, and managed to turn out really quite a beautiful face," recalls Jämsä. Well padded, he looked fine in the required Finnish national costume and evening dress, got through an interview with the judges by pleading hoarseness and hiding his hands under net gloves. The judges gave him third prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fearless Finn | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...Cover) Green eyeshade under a crop of white hair, heavy shoulders bent over an ancient desk, the Harvard Law School's Dean Emeritus Roscoe Pound wrote slowly, pouring the wisdom of his 87 years into his speech for Law Day, U.S.A.: "The law is the highest inheritance the sovereign people has, for without the law there would be no sovereign people and no inheritance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: The Work of Justice | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...last class day for President Lowell, often described as the "ablest confetti man in the Yard." The "lasting impression" of one participant was that of Lowell, "his hat in his hand, confetti in his thin, gray hair, watching the merry makers leave the stadium. Finally, as if reluctant to leave himself, he turned and followed the crowd out of the giant athletic field...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: Confetti Battles in Harvard Stadium | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...tried to burn my door5A crew race is to huddle up near and hop on a car to, and take your shoes off at. A crew race is to tear down the streets of Providence toward and sing "I'm a Brown man born" with, and feel your hair and your shirt blow in the breeze on, and drink...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Social Schism: Brown Spring Weekend | 5/2/1958 | See Source »

...scandal magazine in a two-fisted attempt to keep a client from being reminded of her days as a dancer at stag smokers. It proves only that when a girl gets into trouble there is always a good man around to get her out, provided she has copper-colored hair and the kind of construction that puts a lovelight in a private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Mysteries | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

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