Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Natchez, Miss...
...product of the press conference at which he said: "We don't want any victories or any rights. All we want to do is live." Western Union transmitted it as "love," and TIME printed it that way. At a later press conference Petrillo leveled a finger at Miss Steinert and hollered: "There's that gal from TIME magazine that said all I wanta do is love!" Miss Steinert advised him that the misquotation wouldn't have occurred if Western Union hadn't been on strike. He beamed, agreed, and observed: "That's right. These damn...
Since then, Miss Steinert has been devoted to Petrillo-as a news source. A former member of an opera company, she appreciates a good performance, which he gives, and she has always been able to get a direct answer from him to a direct question. This time Petrillo came through in style on both counts. He had played hard-to-get when he learned that he was to be the cover subject, but the entire Chicago staff descended on him and Petrillo, who can take a production as well as give one, croaked "Ya got me outnumbered" and gave down...
...Miss Steinert, who was assigned to do the Petrillo personality, spent four hours with him straightening out such items as his schooling ("I was still in the fourth grade after nine years, so I quit"), his phobia for germs ("Only it's not like Winchell says. I open them doorknobs without the Kleenex...
...Miss Sorel's critique stung a Radcliffe senior to action. "We Radcliffe girls are a long suffering group," wrote Sophie Reagan, Radcliffe '41, in a letter published in the CRIMSON, "but under the kind of persecution we have received at Harvard's hands, even a Griselda would revolt. It seems to me that the time has come to show that we have feelings and that they have been seriously injured." Miss Reagan summoned her Radcliffe sisters to join her in an informal Committee to Take Radcliffe Seriously...