Word: mimi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mimi-Memo Method. The linguisti-cians' way of teaching is based on the experiences of the Americanists, students of U.S. Indian tribes, who were forced to learn many a tongue which had no written literature. Ancestor of the group was Columbia's late, great ethnologist Franz ("Papa") Boas. He and his greatest linguistic follower, the late Edward Sapir of Yale, could rattle on in Indian tongues which they learned by listening to red men, making phonetic notes, mimicking, memorizing...
Divorced. Henry Junkins ("Bob") Topping Jr., 28, lion-shooting tin-plate heir ($9,000,000) ; and Latin-eyed Gloria ("Mimi") Baker Topping, 23, Bromo-Seltzer heiress ($10,000,000); after four years of marriage (his second); in Palm Beach. She got custody of Sandra Emerson Topping, 3, and Henry Junkins Topping...
Approved by a Los Angeles court was a seven-year cinecontract to pay a weekly minimum of $150, a maximum of $1,250, to Hollywood Newcomer Mimi Chandler, 16-year-old daughter of Kentucky's Senator A. B. ("Happy...
...base. Jay Cooke III, great-grandson of the famed Civil War financier, an ex-socialite now a rock-jawed, boot-tough soldier, won a lieutenant colonel's silver leaves on maneuvers in Louisiana (see cut). Senator A. B. ("Happy") Chandler's 16-year-old torchsinging daughter Mimi went to Hollywood from Kentucky, won a screen test that won her a seven-year contract with Paramount. Into a movie as vocalists with jump-&-jive Bob Crosby's band went a pair of richly endowed twins (see cut): scrumptious Lee & Lynn Wilde, 18, who swore they were the grandnieces...
Married. Actress Mimi Lilygren ("Jo Ann Sayers"), 23, who played the title role in My Sister Eileen; and Ensign Anthony A. Bliss, 29, ex-husband of Publisher Marshall Field Ill's eldest daughter, Barbara; in Manhattan...