Word: winners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...house on Manhattan's unprepossessing West 103rd Street, Mrs. Fred Townley answered the telephone, gave up a small chunk of hard-won anonymity. Married for 25 years to a law-trained businessman, Miss America of 1922 and 1923-the only double winner of the contest-told Gossipist Earl Wilson that she was less than keen about a free trip to this year's rite at Atlantic City (see SHOW BUSINESS). Explained the former Mary Campbell: "I got so tired of the publicity I didn't ever want to hear about Miss America again." Pressed for her life...
...kicking away their campaign before it even got started. With Governor Averell Harriman an uncontested shoo-in for renomination, the brawl came on the nomination of a candidate for the U.S. Senate. The ultimate nominee: New York County's five-term District Attorney Frank Hogan, 56. The real winner in the party fracas: New York County's Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio, after a polished display of professional power politics. The clear loser : Averell Harriman, after a surprisingly amateurish performance...
...give a wrong answer. "I was forced to admit that I didn't know where the Taj Mahal is; I was forced to say that Gothic architecture originated in Germany when I know damn well it was France. See, that's the trend now: a big winner will have to flub the easy ones to make the American public look good." Eventually, said Herb, Enright told him, "We've reached a plateau. We need a new face." Herb was forced to lose to Van Doren-and that tore...
...Want to hear about a contest that's fantabulous? Then, guys and gals, listen! Just write, in 50 words or less, a statement saying 'I am going back to school because.' Enter today-that sawbuck will look pretty sharp in your pocketbook! The grand prize winner will win $100 in loot. Take part in all these kicks!" Sample promotion tagline: "The little red school house is-well-like...
Died. Roger Martin du Gard, 77, French novelist and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for literature, for the ten-volume Les Thibault, a sort of hindsight saga of French life after the turn of the century; in Bellême, France...