Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jackson, Miss., a 30-year-old waitress named Diana Guance spent days considering a fascinating question-what would happen if she hit her boss spang in the face with a chocolate meringue pie? At last she let fly, got fired, was charged with assault. Said she: "It was soul-satisfying...
Europe's Estimate. In the meantime, clear language from Washington was needed to convince the world that a full-grown Truman Doctrine would be the U.S.'s constructive answer to the Communist Party, and not merely a hit-or-miss substitute for UNRRA. The Communists were already busy telling the world that the Truman Doctrine meant imperialism and slavery. Even some French non-Communists thought that the Socialist dirigisme-the "directed economy"-would be lost by listening to advice from the U.S. (see cut). In Britain a large and vocal bloc in the British Labor Party urged Ernest...
...Orleans, another group was in trouble for gun-collecting if not for gunrunning. Two men named William Marsalis and George Rappleyea had a hole-in-the-wall office in New Orleans, a houseful of guns in Gulfport, Miss., plus two landing ships, four P-38s and four tanks. They insisted that they were interested only in opening up the mahogany wilderness of British Honduras...
Andrew J. Lanford '46 of Leverett House and Cambridge and Miss Annelle Slemp, daughter of Mr. Ace Slemp of Tulsa, Oklahoma, are to be married Sunday at Holyoke. Lanford is concentrating in Economics here, and the bride is now a Junior at Oklahoma A & M, where she is majoring in History...
June Allyson found she is the new type of pinup. Editors of 250 college papers, who admire her because she "likes a good book, loves children, and is a good conversationalist," voted her 1947's Most Lovable Movie Actress. Lovable Miss Allyson is now reciprocating by picking the Ail-American College...