Word: midday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Midday shoppers, clustered about the window of British Overseas Airways' office on Washington's Connecticut Avenue, could hardly tear themselves away. Behind the glass, in strapless bathing suit, black-eyed Mary Jane Hayes, Miss Washington of 1949, climbed into a bed. On her pillow was a small black earphone and the words that she heard as she pretended to sleep floated outside through amplifiers. "Bon soir ..." cooed the speaker. "Good night . . . Bon . . . good . . . le soir . . . the night . . ." As onlookers soon found out, Miss Washington was modeling the newest type of French lesson...
Dunlop's appointment and those of David L. Cole '21 of Paterson, New Jersey, and W. Willard Wirtz, professor at Northwestern University and a Harvard Law School graduate, were announced midday yesterday. Cole will head the group...