Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sure, the girls had only one chance to display their intellectual attainments. This was on a radio quiz show. "On what river is the U.S. Naval Academy located?" asked the quizmaster. Why, said Miss Utah, on the Mississippi River. Miss Chicago was convinced that Maryland had been named for Queen Elizabeth, and that Napoleon had been crowned Emperor by the French people (correct, the judges decided, because Napoleon, who crowned himself, was one of the French people).* Miss Chattanooga was asked: "What is the capital of Massachusetts?" She shifted uneasily, hesitated, finally burbled something which sounded very much like "Petroleum...
...Hifalutin Ideas. Well-poised Miss Memphis, Barbara Jo Walker, had the most of that. To her own piano accompaniment, she sang The First Kiss, and Un Bel Di Vedremo from Madame Butterfly. For good measure, she presented the judges with three pastel art works of her own creation. At 47 minutes after midnight on the pageant's fifth night, the dark-haired singer from Memphis was crowned Miss America...
...titles (seven of which have appeared on movie marquees): Lost Horizon, The Phantom Filly, Home Sweet Homicide, To Have and to Hold, Junior Miss, Random Harvest, Lad: a Dog, Wuthering Heights, Steele of the Royal Mounted, The Border Trumpet...
...Emma Woolley, 84, women's-rights pioneer, longtime fighter for peace through disarmament, longtime (1900-'37) president of Mount Holyoke College; after long illness; in Westport, N.Y. Herbert Hoover rewarded her crusading by making her the only woman delegate to the 1932 Geneva Disarmament Conference. Massive, energetic Miss Woolley strode into the job with confidence ("Women rush in where diplomats fear to tread," said she), came back just as discouraged as the male delegates. When a man succeeded her at Mount Holyoke, shocked Miss Woolley never set foot on the campus again...
...slavey, runs off and hides in the woods with a fugitive convict (Dane Clark). Her malingering mother (Fay Bainter) and her embittered father (Henry Hull), forced to depend on each other, strike off the shackles of their years of hatred. The main story centers, of course, on the transfigured Miss Lupino, her violent sweetheart and their hopeless romance...