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Word: maggie (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learned that for the sixth time she had been chosen one of America's 14 best-dressed women by Manhattan's Fashion Academy, along with such well-tailored veterans as Broadway Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, a four-time choice, Mrs. Henry Ford (three times), and Radio-TV Burbler Maggi McNellis (eight times). A newcomer: Opera Diva Maria Callas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 31, 1958 | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

...people think of balls they are apt to think they are selfish-but this one is for a most worthy cause"), and ended her 25-minute show with a plug for a midtown restaurant ("It's wonderful for hand-holding"). Though not quite as sure of herself as Maggi McNellis and Jinx Falkenburg, Newcomer Sloan is already as determinedly chatty as any veteran lady of the airways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...Date, exploits the callow conversations of college boys and tittering models. Plump, pretty Eloise McElhone employs the standard feminine TV equipment of an indefatigable smile, a capacity for continual astonishment ("Is that so?" "You don't say!"), and the ability to talk endlessly about nothing. Willowy, fashion-plated Maggi McNellis, with Leave It to the Girls, represents the loftiest intellectual flights previously achieved by TV women; Maggi's show features a panel of four intimidating ladies in low bodices, who alternate between badgering a male guest and solving such deep questions as "Can a romance that is dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Ladies' Night | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

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