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...Another big winner last week was Mrs. Florence Hubbard, a 65-year-old widow who makes $30 a week as a checker in a Chicago department store. Mrs. Hubbard correctly named Jack Benny as the Walking Man (TIME, March 8) and collected $22,500 worth of prizes...
...little old lady in the crisp white Mother Hubbard and blue gingham sunbonnet looked out of place in Palm Springs, California's gold-plated winter playground for Hollywood stars and Eastern industrialists. So did her horse-drawn buckboard with its "Nellie's Boarding House" sign. Nevertheless, as she rode along Palm Canyon Drive with her two middle-aged sons by her side, the towns people lined the street to wave. They were well aware that without Nellie Coffman the town might not have been what it is today...
...Gadshill; Stephen P. Clement '51 as Peto; Arthur Levine '47 as Bardolph; Sherman H. Hawkins '51 as Francis; George A. Clugston '50 as Sheriff; W.F. Scott III '50, William A. Gaston '51, James K. Dow, Jr. '50, Heinz P. Stern '50, Robert D. Ouimet '51, Robert P. Hubbard '51, and Lucian C. E. Parlata...
Henceforth, as far as TIME is concerned, Reader Hubbard need walk no farther for his weekly copy than the postoffice, where he now becomes TIME'S sixth subscriber in Maryland...
...named it after Mrs. Harriet Hubbard Ayer, a Manhattan socialite who pioneered the sales of cosmetics in the U.S. and shocked women by telling them to scrub their faces. The Ayer company was not prospering when Lillian Dodge took over as president. Not knowing where to start, she started everywhere at once. She passed on labels, sampled powders, tested perfumes, tested cold creams on her own plump cheeks before putting them on the market...