Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss) FRANCES MARVIN...
However much it may have pained the President, some kind of statement was needed. Press Secretary Charley Ross made it. "Miss Truman," he said, "is positively not engaged." Asked a newsman: "Is she going to be?" "Not that I know of," replied Ross...
Blonde, buoyant Eva Paul had spontaneous, unaffected gaiety. She also had pretty legs. When the Lithuanian Daily News sponsored a Miss Lithuania contest in 1933, 17-year-old Eva Paul won it, ruled as Queen of Lithuanian Day at the Chicago World's Fair. When her mother and stepfather moved to a farm near Lowell, Ind., Eva slipped easily into the affairs of the town high school. By the time she was graduated in 1935, she was president of the Red Pepper Social Club and had acquired the highest of adolescent accolades-she was a "popular girl...
...Chamber of Commerce of Omak, Wash. (pop. 3,000), refused to sponsor the Okanogan County preliminaries for this gear's Miss America beauty contest when it learned that, under the terms of the franchise, only white girls could compete. One-third of Omak lies in the Colville Indian reservation...
West Virginia's New River rose 30 feet above its normal level, swept scores of houses and other buildings into the Bluestone Dam basin. At Clarksburg, W.Va., the West Fork River rose to its highest stage since 1888. A 10-ft. levee collapsed at Crowder, Miss. The raging Duck River split the town of Columbia, Tenn. in half; Columbians were evacuated from their homes by the Red Cross and the National Guard...