Word: select
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atlantic City, before 22,000 rapt spectators, an annual rite was performed. After a select group of American beauties had paraded their assets for all to assay, South Carolina's blonde, blue-eyed Marian Ann McKnight, 19 (assets: 35-23-35; dividend: a singing imitation of Marilyn Monroe), was handed a queenly scepter and crowned Miss America of 1957. After sobbing a moment, but not at the thought that her title will net her close to $75,000, the queen threw her head back and said: "Who would have thought this could happen...
...votes and won the right to seek revenge on John Marshall Butler, who had toppled him from the Senate in 1950. But Tydings was laid low by a serious attack of shingles, and had to withdraw from the race (TIME, Aug. 27). Gathered last week to select a new candidate, the Democratic State Central Committee turned aside a bid by Tydings' wife Eleanor, 52, and chose the man her husband had defeated in the primary-Pavement Contractor Mahoney...
...same polished, effective script in his approaches to all the state delegations. The Republicans, said he have "something better to offer than smear and vilification. We have the record of the Eisenhower Administration." (Cheers.) The Democratic nominees are "dedicated men-they are probably the best their convention could select." (Somber silence.) The "greatest danger is one of complacency." (Uncomplacent looks.) As for his own candidacy, the convention was "going to have a little voting tomorrow, and regardless of how the voting comes out, I'm going to be pitching for you." (Loud cheers.) In any event, Nixon concluded...
Decline & Fall. "Nor can we blink the fact that the quality of those teaching has steadily been falling. College graduates of the highest caliber are ever less likely to select teaching as their career . . . The level of preparation for, and instruction in, the colleges will decline...
...from his various enterprises, he set aside enough to finance expansion and to support himself and his family in an unpretentious seven-room apartment ("We live well, but we are not country club"), gave all the rest (roughly $50,000 a year) to the Fromm Foundation. To help him select worthy recipients of his charities, Founder Fromm hired a permanent four-man reviewing staff of professional musicians* (supplemented by occasional guest experts), gave them complete autonomy to award grants to composers who might or might not be to his personal taste. Of the more than 600 young composers whose works...