Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Randall, Leverett coxswain, whose position Miss Grube endangered, saw the abortive attempt to muscle in as a 'Cliffe conspiracy to reassert its position on the Charles, lost last spring when the Annex boats officially entered permanent drydock as a result of financial inadequacies...
...Clara Lamore of Providence won the 220-yard breast stroke in 3:10.5 (more than 19 seconds behind Nell's practice-swim time). Who had questioned Nell's eligibility, and on what exact grounds? Officials were clam-mouthed on that. But one A.A.U. man conceded: "Obviously because Miss Van Vliet was a sure winner...
...A.A.U. swimming championships were held, blond Joe Verdeur of La Salle College became a hero for the second week running. He came butterflying and frog-kicking down the final lap of the 220-yard breaststroke race to win. His time of 2:30.5 (compared to Miss Van Vliet's 2:51 at Daytona Beach) was a new U.S. and world 200-meter record...
Surprisingly, the readers did not miss the scandal. Explains one editor, "Fan book readers don't want to hear anything derogatory said about the star. They want the myth. . . . We are writing inverse statements of frustration. We paint beautiful pictures of love, excitement, wealth, prestige, security and glamor. . . . We give the reader a feeling of identification [with] the stylized intimacy of a movie star's existence. Every marriage we describe must have an idyllic, untarnished quality to it. If you want to keep on running stories about a star, you must strongly intimate that everything is just...
TIME is wonderful! First it was [a picture of] "Miss Hush," and now "The Walking Man" [TIME, March 8]. How about a photograph of the horse destined to win the Kentucky Derby this year? WM. BAIRD...