Word: missing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Episcopal minister said, "15 minutes of unabashed tearjerking." Maggie, the daughter of an itinerant beanpicker, was rescued from social ostracism by the beautiful Baptist mission worker, Miss Lacey, whose well-modulated voice converted Maggie from a self-pitying brat to a self-sacrificing angel. As the program ended, the listeners began hurling comment and criticism at the head of Chicago Theological Seminary's Professor Ross Snyder, moderator of the session and co-chairman of Chicago's Religious Radio Workshop...
Complained New York Times Critic John Martin: "If Miss Bettis is not careful, she will talk us all to death...Apparently all dancers have to learn sooner or later that even more to be avoided than sprains and charley horses is the Commedia dell' Arte, and Miss Bettis has undertaken to learn the hard...
Portly Justin Miller, president of the National Association of Broadcasters, took no stand on the merit of giveaways but wondered "whether the commission has any authority to promulgate any rules." His wonder was shared by FCCommissioner Frieda B. Hennock. In her dissenting vote, Miss Hennock maintained that "without a specific mandate from Congress for us to curb the prevalence of this type of program, our action today is unwarranted." Even a contestant was heard from. Mrs. Elaine Smith of Dallas, recent winner on CBS' Winner Take All, pouted: "It's a shame the FCC should be so nasty...
Pulitzer Prizewinning Editor Hodding Carter of the Greenville (Miss.) Delta Democrat-Times (circ. 10,884) prides himself on being a "Southern liberal." Editor James A. Wechsler of the New York Post Home News (circ. 374,706) is just as proud of being a "Northern liberal." Last week Editors Carter and Wechsler, onetime staffers on Manhattan's late, hyperthyroid PM, were sniping at each other in a lively bushwhacking fight...
...trying her wings: she is tired of her Cadillac and wants another; she wants a mink stole; in Paris last winter she went on a clothes-buying spree and overdrew her checking account; in London she snapped back at her teacher, "Wouldn't it be nice if Miss Anderson dropped right through the floor...