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...were some nice child, writing ... to its Godpapa." But occasionally, Carlyle came close to sharing an idea with his "wee wifiekin," as when he was moved by the human and physical blight of the Industrial Revolution on a South Wales town: "The town might be ... one of the prettiest places in the world, and it is one of the sootiest, squalidest and ugliest ... It is like a vision of Hell, and will never leave me, that of those poor creatures broiling, all in sweat and dirt, amid their furnaces, pits and rolling mills...
After squiring Miss America, Neva Jane Langley, around Vancouver, B.C. Reporter Jack Wasserman began to worry about the future of the race. "I walked through Stanley Park on Sunday with the prettiest girl in North America, and nobody even whistled-in fact, we had a hard time getting served at the park popcorn concession." Even more disillusioning, Neva refused to pose for cheesecake, because "the winner is picked for beauty, poise and talent, so posing in a bathing suit would undo all the good work the foundation is trying...
...Rome and Paris. She uses native Irish materials, designs many of the fabrics herself, works closely with the Irish weavers, and turns out clothes from $80 to $475. In the middle bracket ($295) is her green velvet, off-the-shoulder "Kinsale Cape" for evening wear. One of the prettiest of the Connolly lot: "Kitchen Fugue," a full-skirted evening dress with stole, made of multicolored Irish-linen kitchen toweling...
...Texan knows, the Lone Star State is the biggest, richest, toughest and most cultured in the land, with the prettiest women; Texans learn all this at their mothers' knees. But last week, in a free-swinging, heavy-handed piece of low humor, Esquire (circ. 819,000) took exception. The article, under the pen name Bernard Dorrity and the title "Let's Secede from Texas," described the state as a "geographical hemorrhoid." Its cotton land "is now poor and desolate," its grazing lands "worthless," its "mean, mangy and narrow" citizens are "boors when sober [and] downright dangerous when drunk...
...Colonel Katherine A. Towle, director of Women Marines, has resigned (as of April 1953) to become dean of women at the University of California. He announced that Judy, now 36, is to replace her-thus becoming the youngest, and, at least to a marine's eye, certainly the prettiest woman ever to command the female branch of any U.S. military service...