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Yolande Betbeze (1951) recalled to Miss America Chronicler Frank Deford just how silly the year could become. She was sent to Paris with a vial of water from the Hudson River. To symbolize Franco-American friendship, she was to pour it into the Seine. She remembered that "all the damn water ran out of the vial on the plane over, and I had to refill it with water from the faucet in my hotel...
Vignali says his father encouraged his football efforts but didn't pour on the pressure. When the time came to apply to college, he promised his parents he'd visit three Ivy schools as well as three other universities. Vignali almost went for the big time, signing a letter of intent to accept a scholarship from the University of Minnesota...
...handed fight without parallel in U.S. history. He did it all himself, after Democratic liberal and labor leaders had tried their best to depose him. He had plugged and pounded his way across the country. He had a kind of self-induced fervor which roused the admiring cry of "Pour it on, Harry...
...Pour l'amour de Dieu, pas de pagaille...
Fifteen minutes after a rosy sun lifted over the pastures of Normandy, khaki-clad U.S. and British troops began to pour ashore-the British on the left near Havre, the Americans on the right near Cherbourg...