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Word: helene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eleanor Roosevelt, in the opinion of the U.S. public, is the world's "most admired" living woman-a distinction she has won nine years out of the past ten.* The runners-up, in the order of their public appeal: U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce, Mamie Eisenhower, Helen Keller, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Madame Chiang Kaishek, Britain's Princess Margaret (a newcomer to the top ten), India's Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Oveta Culp Hobby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 23, 1956 | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

Most of Broadway's brightest names turned out in regiment strength at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to hail Theater Grandame Helen Hayes, 55, on the soth anniversary of her first stage appearance. In the grand finale, while Actress Hayes listened with proud Victorian regality, everybody on stage serenaded her with an affectionate rendering of The Way You Look Tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 9, 1956 | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

Sunny Side. Wherever the Americans went, Russians gathered to stare, creating traffic jams. Traffic was blocked for a mile when 1,000 Russians surrounded Earl Jackson (who alternates as Sportin' Life) and Helen Thigpen (Serena), out for a stroll, with Jackson wearing cowboy boots, an Argentine nutria coat and hat, and custom-made pigskin gloves equipped with four holes through which his six emerald-and-diamond rings glittered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Porgy in Leningrad | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

...newspaper or on the experience chart, and the children see their own words translated into what otherwise would be meaningless symbols. Whatever devices she uses, the teacher sticks fairly close to her pupils' interest and experiences. She may take them to an airport, says Associate School Superintendent Helen C. Bailey of Philadelphia, and then have them dictate a story about it to her. "This is a kind of commercial to get them interested. We show them the words so they'll want to read." It is also one method of developing a pupil's story sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: THE FIRST R | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

Enter Franz. Her latest biographer, Helen Holdredge (Mammy Pleasant), labored hard to dig up all that is rich and rare about her favorite hussy. What was Lola's strange appeal? Her beauty? Her habit of wielding a horsewhip in order to discipline cynical newspaper editors who hinted at her Forever Amberguous relations with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Favorite Hussy | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

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