Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bangaway had no trouble at the first turn; his driver worked him up to fourth place, where he held on momentarily, then faded back. Out of the ruck of frail sulkies and flying legs came a bay filly named Miss Tilly, driven by 69-year-old Fred Egan and owned by Charles W. Phellis of Greenwich, Conn. Miss Tilly gamely fought off a closing rush by a bay colt named Volume to win the first heat by less than a length...
...year-old, Miss Tilly was an alltime high money winner, but this year, in nine starts, she had not won a race. Last week she made up for all that. In the second and deciding heat, Driver Egan kept her in hand all the way and she was first by five lengths. Miss Tilly took down the third largest winner's share ($37,617) of the second largest purse in Hambletonian history...
...miners, it seemed, were not the only beneficiaries. Of the fund's three trustees, Miss Roche disclosed casually, two are drawing a lush $35,000 a year each (the equivalent of 35 miners' death benefits) for their services. The third trustee, U.M.W. Chief John L. Lewis, accepts no fee but gets a union salary of $50,000 plus an unlimited annual expense account...
With a chaperone in tow, Bebe (Miss America) Shopp, 18, did a bit of touring in Europe. (Breathed a goggling French customs officer: "Quelle femme!") In London, Bebe came out foursquare against false bosoms: "I don't wear them [myself] and I never will. A girl must be her very own self. Palsies aren't honest." The U.S. beauty (bust 37, hips 36) also took a swipe at the "French-type" bathing suit: "A dab here, and a bit right down here and back there." Said she righteously: "So much unrestrained nudity has a bad moral effect...
Backing the handsome production values are several fine performances-notably those by Jennifer Jones, Heflin and Jourdan. Miss Jones, in her best picture to date, manipulates Emma's moods and caprices with sensitive dexterity. Hardly ever out of sight of the camera, she gives a performance that is hardly ever out of focus, a feat that even the finicky Flaubert could admire...