Word: ms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moon and Sixpence (NBC, 8-9:30 p.m.). Sir Laurence Olivier makes Ms American TV debut in Somerset Maugham's modern classic. With a superb supporting cast, including Judith Anderson, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy and Cyril Cusak. Color...
...appearances as the Virgin and as the Nun in Max Reinhardt's 1924 production of The Miracle. She was spared the rigors of a formal education, and to this day claims that her spelling is so phonetic that when she has a cold she writes Bs for Ms. Her father, the Eighth Duke, seems to have been a dull dog. But this was England of two generations ago, and when a duke spoke, people listened. DUKE PRAYS FOR RAIN, ran a headline. After a suitable interval, there was another headline: DUKE'S PRAYERS ANSWERED...
Bagged Martinis. Plastic bags for individual martinis have been developed by Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. for several airlines. They figure to save up to 60 Ibs. of bottle weight per flight. Three Ms is now working on putting bourbon in its plastic Scotchpak, which left a slight taste in first experiments...
...Weary of beauty-queen contests, Jämsä strapped on a corset, fluffed up his flowing, brown hair, and entered himself in the annual Maid of the North contest in Rovaniemi, capital of Finnish Lapland. "I didn't drink then, was much slimmer, and managed to turn out really quite a beautiful face," recalls Jämsä. Well padded, he looked fine in the required Finnish national costume and evening dress, got through an interview with the judges by pleading hoarseness and hiding his hands under net gloves. The judges gave him third prize. Jäms...
...Through." Son of a Turku railway-station official, Jämsä never did get to high school, began making news in his first reporting job on a provincial newspaper-he strapped on skis and ran an elk to exhaustion. Since 1953 he has averaged a story a week for Apu, often has his exploits reported in the Scandinavian and northern German press. One future assignment: hunting a bear with a spear (to prove that modern Finns are as strong as their ancestors...