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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have a double scoop of...ma'am?" But it appeared that the waitress wasn't listening to Ernest Hollings. "Uh, miss--young lady...

Author: By Andrew S. Doctoroff, | Title: Take A Number | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...Connery decided to turn to active service will not be disappointed. Nor even though Connery might be thinning a little the temples and sports a small tire around the aist, he still manages an appropriate series of improbable escapes, after-hours conquests and evilish grins. As his forever faithful Miss loneypenny would say, it's the same old James...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: Nobody Does It Better | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...Williams, 20 and a Syracuse University student, being Miss America was a practical proposition. She wanted the scholarship money ($25,000), and she wanted the exposure. She wants to be a star. She says until this year she had not given a thought to competing in the pageant. But the executive director of the Miss America Greater Syracuse pageant put the bee in her bonnet, explaining the benefits, and off she went, becoming Miss Greater Syracuse, Miss New York and, ultimately, Miss America, who now, upon leaving David Letterman's studio at NBC, received a hand-delivered letter from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: The Miss is a Hit | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

This first round of offers appears to come with the territory if a Miss America expresses thespian designs. With the exception of Bess Myerson (1945), winners seem to find sustaining a career in the public eye more difficult than gaining the title. Rosemary LaPlanche (1941) is not much remembered today, though she made 84 movies, including Strangler of the Swamp and Devil Bat's Daughter. Lee Meriwether (1955) has had roles enough, but her name has failed to attain the tip of the national tongue. Mary Ann Mobley (1959) made those Elvis Presley films, and has had trouble shaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: The Miss is a Hit | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...miss Poland, but when I was in Poland, a friend of mine who had turned 21 said" now I'm 21, it's all going down from here. You can't achieve. I knew there was nothing I could do with my life," she says, adding. "Coming here and staying here was like opening my world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Like Hell and Paradise': A Polish Student at Harvard | 10/15/1983 | See Source »

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