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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...official prize in the Miss America contest was a $5,000 scholarship to any school of the winner's choosing. But there appeared to be little Ph.D. timber among the 54 entrants (representing 39 states, 14 cities and Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Strutters | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...Prediction. At the Rio Conference (see The Hemisphere), Morinigo's Foreign Minister, Dr. Federico Chaves, fresh from dining with Perón, .said that the elections, which Morinigo had been promising for six years, would be held immediately. He could and did predict the winner: the Colorado Party, headed by Morinigo. In this forecast, plain Paraguayans could find one consolation: if the rebels had won the war, it would only have meant swapping one dictatorship for another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARAGUAY: Nick of Time | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...lead on me, I'm surprised. ... I think he's either playing over his head, or lucky." This kind of confidence has to be acquired early and then be cultivated. Kramer won his first big tournament (the National Boys' crown) at 15. Frank Parker was a winner at 14, Riggs at 13, Budge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Advantage Kramer | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Norris, a member of the Varsity swimming team for the past two years, defeated three-time winner Steve Wosniak, former Michigan all-American John McCarthy, and entries from Yale and Princeton. Trueblee Habeler, the Tiger competitor, won the 440 yard free style in the Harvard-Princeton meet last winter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Swimmer Wins AAU Crown Despite Crippled Leg | 8/28/1947 | See Source »

Another Varsity Winner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nilsson Churns to Two Pool Wins In HAA Medal Monopoly of Summer | 8/21/1947 | See Source »

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