Word: lee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Television audiences for the first time got to watch the finals in the annual Miss America contest, run off at Atlantic City. The winner: San Francisco's 19-year-old Lee Ann Meriwether (5 ft. 8½ in., 124 Ibs.; bust 34½, waist 22, hips...
...drama student at City College of San Francisco, the new Miss America won $5,000 cash, a Nash sedan, a Philco TV set and about $50,000 in endorsement and personal-appearances fees. To show off her less obvious talents during the contest, Lee Ann gave a dramatic reading of a scene from John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea. Next day, Miss America modestly insisted that her figure was really nothing to get excited about. Said she: "I think Dior's flat look came just in time to save...
...Waterfront. Elia Kazan's big-shouldered melodrama of dockside corruption; with Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb (TIME...
...first target was Linwood Park, Inc., builder of a Fort Lee. N.J. project, which netted the builders a $2,456,821 profit. If FHA could successfully take over the corporation and get back the windfall cash, it planned to go after all the other windfall profiteers...
...Waterfront. Elia Kazan's big-shouldered melodrama of dockside corruption; with Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint. Lee J. Cobb (TIME...