Word: missing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While staying at the Waldorf-Astoria, Miss Bowden will participate in a crowded schedule of rehearsals, fittings, and fashion shows. Although she admits the experience might be "a handy thing," Miss Bowden has "no desire to be a model...
...very pleased and honored," Miss Bowden said last night, "but at Radcliffe such an award does not mean much at all." Since she entered the contest, she has become more "conscious of her dress," but still finds black stockings "quite nice...
...tends to favor the girls. Another is the fact that, due to difference in study habits, boys' examinations tend to be "uneven." A Harvard student often "hits" one essay question, for which he had completed the reading and devoted thought, better than a Cliffie. But often he will completely "miss" two other answers. In contrast to this, girls, who usually do all the reading uniformly well, answer all questions with relatively equal competence. In the long run, this tendency works out in favor of the girls. "Education based on knowledge rather than capricious luck based on ignorance always wins...
...reminiscent of the St.Valentine's Day Massacre, the disguised Curtis and Lemmon light out for Miami with an all-girl band. As gents of lusty instincts, the proximity to pulchritudinous musicians strains their ambition to remain disguised, but somehow they persevere. Curtis eventually executes some fancy footwork to win Miss Monroe, and despite every effort to avoid it, Lemmon wins Joe E. Brown-in the role of a vacationing millionaire...
While the movie lasts longer than is necessary, it never really becomes tiresome because things move at such a frenetic pace. To Miss Monroe's chagrin, Wilder announced to the New York Herald Tribune's Joe Hyams (if memory serves) that he would never, positively never, make another movie with Miss Monroe. She should promise to be a good girl forever and ever on the studio lot, because Wilder and Monroe are a stunning combination...