Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss Arizona, trim (5 ft. 4 in., 106 lbs.), brunette Jacque Mercer, a rancher's daughter from Litchfield, was crowned Miss America of 1949. She won over a field of 52, after preliminary victories in the bathing-suit division and talent class (she wowed them with a dramatic reading of the death scene from Romeo and Juliet). Her prizes: a $5,000 scholarship (which she hopes to take at Stanford), a $3,000 Nash sedan. Her plans: "Marriage first, a career second...
Weeding out applicants by a homemade aptitude test, Miss Efron started with a class of 20, including six practicing newsmen. At first, teacher and class fought in French on philosophical terrain: What is truth? What is objectivity? When Miss Efron tried to explain the difference between opinion and fact, gossip and news, her students replied that she was "stifling the Haitian soul." Later, "Editor" Efron sent her reporters scurrying out on assignments. Says she proudly:"They got kicked out of the best places in town...
Some products, of course, would always be best advertised by models. This fact is borne out by such stories as the rise of Manhattan's Rheingold beer. It climbed from eighth to first place in Eastern beer sales largely by the use of pretty Miss Rheingolds, about half of them Irish "colleens" duly elected each year by beer drinkers. (Current Miss Rheingold: pert Pat McElroy.) In its battle with Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola plans to count heavily on the new television Pepsi-Cola Girl, Louise Hyde, a 24-year-old Chattanooga belle of whom one adman said hopefully...
Standing up, Miss Norden looks like a monument to the dress industry; but her more becoming pose is lying down. England's new matinee idol, Kieron Moore, has an unusual change-of-pace style of acting. He gives the effect of a meandering block of dispossessed concrete that suddenly pauses and sparkles whenever an actress appears on the scene. Saints and Sinners allows the Abbey Players to have a histrionic field day in the Irish countryside...
...awaiting the verdict of the book reviewers, Miss Kent is again back at her typewriter, leading Portia into (and successfully out of) a new maze of troubles. "This is my tenth year of writing Portia Faces Life" she says. Then, glancing nervously at her novel: "Or it will be if I still have...