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Word: virginia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paso, on her way to Spokane, Mob-land's pin-up moll Virginia Hill, whose Austrian ski-instructor husband Hans Hauser has been ordered to leave the country, turned her temper on some unarmed reporters, slapped one, slugged another with her spike heel, then gave a statement: "The happiest day of my life will be when I leave this damn country." When her plane put down in Denver, she took a swing at the nearest stranger, apologized when she found the man was not another reporter, but merely an investigator from the District Attorney's office who wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Derring-Do | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

Pantomime Quiz (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS-TV) is The Game (charades), Hollywood-style, which means that the participants do not lounge around like their quiz panel counterparts in Manhattan, but get right in there pitching and mugging. Such regulars as Jackie Coogan and Adele Jergens, and such guests as Virginia Field and George O'Brien, take turns plugging their latest pictures, then enacting the words of a quotation for the rest to guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: New Shows, Jul. 16, 1951 | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

Father Vega joined the Mexican Catholics in 1945, and two years later went to the U.S. to study at the Episcopalians' Virginia Theological Seminary. Two years ago he took charge of the pastorless flock in McKinney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Under the Episcopal Wing | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

...Maryland high-school girl named Carolyn Jane Barker was sitting in the car with her boy friend, 19-year-old Lawrence Gilbert. The pair-interrupted just as the boy had presented an engagement ring-were too startled to utter a sound. Irwin yanked out his pistol. "Drive me to Virginia," he said, dramatically, "the FBI is after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Crime | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

...Everything." Dagmar (who was born Virginia Ruth Egnor) left Huntington six years ago because she was too softhearted to keep her job in a loan office ("I hated asking all those nice people for money!"). In Manhattan, she tried modeling for a while, got a bit part in the Olsen & Johnson musical Laffing Room Only through one of the shortest interviews on record (Johnson: "What do you do?" Dagmar: "I do everything." Johnson: "I bet you do."). Before the sensational breathing exercises on Broadway Open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Breathing, Just Breathing | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

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