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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these and other bits & pieces of fact began to fill in the pattern of Dennis' life, other TIME bureaus were put to work investigating the important new leads that kept turning up. In New York, Miss Finn turned up the exact address of Waldron-Dennis' stepmother in Southern California, where James Murray, of our Los Angeles bureau, located her. A tip from Washington (about a phony name Dennis had used on a passport) was relayed (with a picture of Dennis) to TIME Inc.'s Tokyo bureau, which turned up the story of his activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 2, 1949 | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...comely stenographer on the Navy's Quonset Point Air Station near Providence had been acting a little skittish lately. The reason was the big, annual all-station ball for the base's 3,900 sailors and civilian personnel. This year, the big feature was the election of "Miss Quonset Point." The triumphant queen was to be crowned at the ball; the commandant would escort her in the grand march. Everyone who bought a ticket got a vote, and sales were brisk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Captain & the Sweeper | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

Last week, when the returns were in, the committee found that 1949's "Miss Quonset Point" was Mrs. Eva Clausen, who sweeps up in the huge Overhaul and Repair shop. Mrs. Clauson is 43, the wife of a disabled World War I veteran, mother of five children, and plain. But every worker in the 0. & R. shop knows Eva. She listens to their troubles, smiles at their jokes. Bluejackets and civilian workmen call her "Olive Oyl." And some 500 of them voted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Captain & the Sweeper | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...city of Bay St. Louis, Miss, bought its first police car. It got the money by levying a fee of $5 each per month on 120 illegally operating slot machines. Said Police Chief Francis T. Hobbs: "The purchase of the car will greatly aid us in enforcing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS .& MORALS: Americana, May 2, 1949 | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...minute attempt to have Captain Smith change his mind. He refused. He also expressed a desire to "kick in the head" the Providence reporter who had written a story about Mrs. Clauson. When the grand march came, Captain Smith escorted his wife to lead the march. Nobody was crowned "Miss Quonset Point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Captain & the Sweeper | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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