Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barbara Jo Walker (Miss America of 1947), who is engaged to a medical student, turned down a Hollywood contract, explained: "Love is more important...
...Corre, now 35, took his creed from a sign above an editor's desk: "1) Where is the fact? 2) Where is the human interest? 3) Where is the tra-la-la?" The thing that most impressed him was the tralala. When France fell, Corre managed to miss the occupation's hardships by going to Lyon. But he turned up as an eleventh-hour Resistance soldier under General Leclerc and rode into Paris as a private in one of the first jeeps behind Leclerc...
Died. John Avery Lomax, 80, pioneer collector of U.S. folksongs; of a heart attack; in Greenville, Miss. Portly, amiable Lomax recognized American balladry as folk art, traveled through cow country and mining camps, saloons 'and prisons, discovered and recorded such classics as Home on the Range and Goodbye Old Paint...
According to Miss Ehrentheil, the A.A. serves orange juice, cookies, tea, and sundry other goodies to 'Cliffe opponents during games and has even been known to come through with sleeping accommodations...
...system is "adequate," claimed Miss Ehrentheil, who would not comment on how it felt to serve refreshments to an opponent who is 10 or 15 points ahead in a crucial basketball or field hockey game...