* Josephine Tey: Miss Pym Disposes

* Miss Pym Disposes ( 1946 ) Josephine Tey

In Josephine Tey's 1946 novel Miss Pym Disposes, the title character, herself a psychologist, refers to Coué with apparent scepticism.

Some elements are reminiscent of Tey's Miss Pym Disposes.

She won a listeners ' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948 – 1949, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March.

* September 11 – The Miss America Pageant is broadcast on television for the first time.

The Miss America Pageant, first broadcast in 1954, was a competition where the winner achieved status as a national celebrity.

BBC Radio broadcast an adaptation of the novel by Stephen Wyatt in 2004 starring Emma Fielding as Becky, Stephen Fry as the Narrator, Katy Cavanaugh as Amelia, David Calder, Philip Fox, Jon Glover, Geoffrey Whitehead as Mr. Osbourne, Ian Marsters as Mr. Sedley, Alice Hart as Maria Osbourne and Margaret Tyzack as Miss Crawley ( subsequently re-broadcast on BBC Radio 7, renamed BBC Radio 4 Extra, in twenty fifteen-minute episodes ).

A radio play of the same title was broadcast on 21 February 2009 on BBC Radio 4, with actress Maggie Smith reprising her role of Miss Shepherd and Alan Bennett playing himself.

She was nominated for BAFTA Awards on five occasions, and won twice, for her work in the film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( 1969 ), and for the television production Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, a BBC Play for Today broadcast in 1973.

* September 10 – A night of firsts for the Miss America Pageant — its first color TV broadcast and its first airing on NBC.

The first version was broadcast in 1951, the second in 1972, with Gabrielle Hamilton as Miss Matty, and the third version in 2007.

An Italian / German television movie about the princess's life, Soraya ( a. k. a. Sad Princess ) was broadcast in 2003, starring Anna Valle ( Miss Italy 1995 ) as Soraya.

* On 11 July 1976, to the global satellite broadcast for the first time Miss Universe held in Hong Kong campaign, a global audience of more than 500 million people.

* On 8 November 2008, the first major international beauty pageant production of television programs, held in Macao and called the 48th Miss International, was broadcast on TVB.

It was selected as the site of the 2006 Miss USA Pageant, for broadcast on live television.

During the concert, which was broadcast nationally on CBS, Tyler, Perry, and the orchestra performed a medley of " Walk This Way ", " I Don't Want to Miss a Thing " and " Dream On ".

Phillip's lies about his ' primitive ' background seem most obviously an ironic response to Rigsby's racist remarks, and sometimes result in moments when Rigsby's gullibility and desperation lead to his belief in some aspect of Phillip's lore: for example, the ' love wood ' which fails to excite Miss Jones ( in the ' Charisma ' episode, first broadcast 1974 ).

That year she represented Maryland in the Miss USA 1980 pageant broadcast live from Biloxi, Mississippi, and placed in the top twelve.

In March 2007 it was announced that the broadcast of the Miss Teen USA pageant on NBC had not been renewed, and that Miss Teen USA 2007 would be the final televised event.

After Miss Julie, a version of the Strindberg play Miss Julie, was broadcast on BBC television in the same year.

She appeared in the pilot episode of The Addams Family ( broadcast in the U. S in September 1964 ) as Miss Comstock, an official from the Addams ' children's school.

Arden won a radio listeners ' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948-49, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March.

* A radio adaptation was broadcast on BBC Radio4 on 5 May 2001 in the Saturday Play slot, starring June Whitfield as Miss Marple.

A televised version was broadcast on the Showtime network in 1984, starring Jean Stapleton as Miss Tweed and Andy Gibb as Geoffrey, supported by a cast of well-known Canadian actors.

In 1989, Tornell won the Miss Nevada USA title and went on to represent Nevada at the Miss USA pageant broadcast live from Mobile, Alabama.

In They Do It with Mirrors ( 1952 ), it is revealed that, in her distant youth, Miss Marple spent time in Europe at a finishing school.

In They Do It With Mirrors ( 1952 ), it is mentioned that Miss Marple grew up in a cathedral close, and that she studied at an Italian finishing school with Americans Ruth Van Rydock and Caroline " Carrie " Louise Serrocold.

The other Rutherford films ( all directed by George Pollock ) were Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 ), based on the 1953 Hercule Poirot novel After the Funeral ( In this film, she is identified as Miss JTV Marple, though there was no indication as to what the extra initials might stand for ); Murder Most Foul ( 1964 ), based on the 1952 Poirot novel Mrs McGinty's Dead ; and Murder Ahoy!

Lloyd Price, who in 1952 had a # 1 hit with " Lawdy Miss Clawdy " regained predominance with a version of " Stagger Lee " at # 1 and " Personality " at # 5 for in 1959.

** Armi Kuusela, Miss Universe 1952

She reprised her stage roles of the headmistress alongside Alastair Sim in The Happiest Days of Your Life ( 1950 ) and Miss Prism in Anthony Asquith's film adaptation of The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1952 ).

* The title role in Miss Hargreaves at the Royal Court Theatre and New Theatre, 1952

Other notable films included Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), Love Letters ( 1945 ), Cluny Brown ( 1946 ), Portrait of Jennie ( 1948 ), Madame Bovary ( 1949 ), We Were Strangers ( 1949 ), Gone to Earth ( 1950 ), Carrie ( 1952 ), Ruby Gentry ( also 1952 ), Indiscretion of an American Wife ( 1953 ), Beat the Devil ( 1953 ), Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing ( 1955 ), Good Morning Miss Dove ( also 1955 ), The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit ( 1956 ) starring opposite Gregory Peck and A Farewell to Arms ( 1957 ).

Major international contests for women include the yearly Miss World competition ( founded by Eric Morley in 1951 ), Miss Universe ( founded in 1952 ), Miss International ( founded in 1960 ) and Miss Earth ( founded in 2001 with environmental awareness as its concern ).

* Victoria Budinger ( born 1952 ), best known as " Miss Vicki ", wife of Tiny Tim.

His first recording, " Lawdy Miss Clawdy " was a huge hit on Specialty Records in 1952, and although he continued to turn out records, none were as popular until several years later, when he refined the New Orleans beat and achieved a series of national hits.

The first Miss Universe Pageant was held in Long Beach, California in 1952.

As of 2010, only four countries have been present at every Miss Universe since its inception in 1952: Canada, France, Germany, and the United States.

** May Louise Flodin of Sweden, was crowned Miss World 1952 by Miss World 1951 Kicki Håkansson of Sweden.

In the ' 50s, they were finally given their own series, but only three cartoons were made ; Chicken in the Rough ( 1951 ), Two Chips and a Miss ( 1952 ) and The Lone Chipmunks ( 1954 ).

From 1952 Burke attended the Mayer Sulzberger Junior High School at 701 – 741 North 48th Street in the Mill Creek neighborhood of West Philadelphia, where he was a member of a choir organized by Miss Joy Goings, that included McCoy Tyner ; three future members of The Castelles: George Grant, Billy Taylor and Octavius Anthony ; Lee Andrews ; William " Sonny " Gordon, later of the Angels and The Turbans, who lived a couple of houses from Burke ; George Tindley of the Dreams ; and George Pounds, Karl English, and Melvin Story of the Cherokees.

Jones won the " Miss Pittsburgh " contest in 1952.

" Miss Kitty " did not appear on the radio series until the May 10, 1952, episode " Jaliscoe.

Evans was particularly well known for portraying haughty aristocratic ladies, as in two of her most famous roles: Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest ( both on stage and in the 1952 film ), and Miss Western in the 1963 film of Tom Jones.