Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Visiting diplomats find Washington society more hectic, more alcoholic, and less chic than that of European capitals. They go to parties because they have to: drawing rooms are their workrooms. But they miss the sure social structure of London, the intellectual tone of Paris, the darkened grace of Rome's great palazzi. They deplore the fact that official Washington society is made up of small-town politicians, uninteresting businessmen, journalists, and wives who wear the same dress three or four times. Embassies used to be consecrated ground for uninhibited splendor-but no longer. Now host and guest alike feel...
...State Representative Edwin Snow rose on the floor of the Idaho legislature, was recognized by the chair-and asked pretty, redheaded State Representative Edith Miller to marry him. Said thirtyish Miss Miller, after order had been restored: ". . . on a point of personal privilege I accept Mr. Snow's proposal...
...mother is an enthusiastic brunette music lover named Mary Phillips, 28. The court ordered Tagliavini to pay $25 a week for the baby's support. The outraged tenor, for almost eight years married to bouncy Met Soprano Pia Tassinari, denied everything and announced that he would appeal. Said Miss Phillips: "I'm so happy for baby . . . She needs new shoes." But the trial had taught her bitterness, too. "As far as men are concerned," she announced, "I'm through. Men-their tactics and deceitfulness! Even my ex-husband testified against...
...this would undoubtedly not be so. (There is a paradox in this--the half-a-dozen great Italian post-war films imported to America have had a larger audience here than in Italy. Since they have all dealt with the agonies of the present times, the Italians' preference for Miss Hayworth et al., is understandable...
Betty Heaton '51, of 20 Walker street and Wellesley, will act as Radcliffe NSA delegate for 1949. In this position Miss Heaton automatically becomes second-vice-president of Student Government. Also elected on the NSA slate was Jean McCormick '51, of Eliot Hall and West-port, Connecticut, who will take over the position of alternate...