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...that catches rain (U.S. patent No. 2,443,848, issued to Barbara S. Boeringer of Minneapolis). When it starts raining, the wearer takes off his hat, turns it inside out, and attaches a collecting bottle to a spout in the crown...
...Married. Barbara Jo Walker, 22, Sunday-school-teaching Miss America (1947); and John Vernon Hummel, 24, medical intern; in Memphis. Some 2,000 guests were invited to the wedding; police held back the uninvited, while firemen's searchlights lit the Methodist Church like a Hollywood premi...
...After studying the 1948 birth certificates, New York City's Health Department reported that the most popular names for boys were Robert, John, James and Michael; for girls, Barbara, Linda, Patricia and Mary...
...same car (four cylinders, front-wheel drive, no superchargers) that he won with last year. After averaging a record 119.8 m.p.h., Rose took two laps for insurance. Then he took a couple more. He had his speech all ready for the newsreel cameras when Hollywood's beauteous Barbara Britton tried to kiss him in the winner's cage: "There's a lady I want to kiss first ... I hope you'll understand. We're going to be married in June." The prizes he had helped win were ideal for setting up housekeeping...
...Toronto, after four months of playing cat & mouse with professional offers, Canada's 20-year-old Barbara Ann Scott (TIME, Feb. 2) allowed herself to be caught. The dainty figure skater signed a contract with a talent agency whose other clients include Hollywood's Shirley Temple, Joan Fontaine, Jimmy Stewart. Then she took some time off to worry about her freckles. Most likely assignment: the movies...