Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...refused to take) had leaked out after the secret committee hearings; he was distressed because of the death of Harry White (see below). Said he: "I'm not sure I'm, in the best possible mood for testimony. But I do not for a moment want to miss the opportunity of seeing Mr. Chambers...
...Williamsburg for a leisurely nine-day cruise in Chesapeake and Delaware Bays. Truman finds in the Williamsburg one of the few places on earth where he can relax with his friends in privacy. If Harry Truman is sent back to Missouri next January, undoubtedly the thing he will miss most will be the yacht...
...could play an entire picture in an iron lung (Technicolored, of course) and send her admirers away happy. This might be true, provided she could remain her buoyant blonde self, complete with legs. When she tried to hide behind long skirts and a prim Victorian manner in The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, the faithful were outraged. Many of them got the word and stayed away altogether; more than 100,000 others complained of the sacrilege by mail. Miss Pilgrim, an attempt to tinker with the Grable formula, is that rare Grable picture that lost money...
...Frank Ross and the Daily Mirror's Ara Piastre at his heels. While they stared at the crumpled figure in the courtyard, Russian-speaking Reporter Piastre (daughter of Conductor Mishel Piastre) heard her moaning "Ostavte! Ostavte!" (Later, only the Herald Tribune went out of its way to credit Miss Piastro with the translation: "Leave me alone...
...Ella Logan was not too enthusiastic: "People tell me I didn't look bad. But usually, all the girls end up looking like Wallace Beery." The exception was 50-year-old Bea Lillie, who appeared on the television screen to be both young and beautiful. Miss Lillie's delicate moral reservation about television: "Isn't it going to cause a lot of drinking in the home...