Word: 61st
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week) in vaudeville, movies (The Little Colonel, The Littlest Rebel with Moppet Shirley Temple) and musicomedies (The Hot Mikado). A natural dancer who never took a lesson, he gave lessons to Eleanor Powell and Ruby Keeler, originated the widely imitated stair dance, danced down Broadway to celebrate his 61st birthday. Twice married, Bojangles credited his stamina and success to vanilla ice cream and teetotaling, lived sumptuously in Harlem, gambled and generously gave away his earnings (between $2,000,000 and $4,000,000), was finally hospitalized on a benefit fund...
...flurry in the demand for such publications as Rider & Driver and Town & Country. From 48th to 52nd Streets, prizefight and hockey fans were in temporary retreat before the advancing wave of high society which was bravely turned out in sables and silk hats, diamonds and décolletages. The 61st annual National Horse Show was on in Madison Square Garden...
...Case of the Cautious Coquette, Erie Stanley Gardner's 61st crime novel, is a good example of the stream-of-action technique, the ingenious but credible situations and the direct, undecorated prose that have made him the best-selling author alive. In 25? Pocket Book editions alone, 28 of his books have sold more than 30 million copies in less than nine years. Fourteen Gardner titles have gone over the million mark; The Case of the Lucky Legs alone has hit the incredible figure, for a detective story, of 2,000,000. In all editions, hard and paper cover...
Kidnap or Rescue? The Russian consulate is a five-story stone Manhattan town house (leased from the niece of the late John D. Rockefeller) on fashionable East 61st Street, across from the Hotel Pierre. Newsmen had been posted outside its grillwork door for five days-ever since Oksana Kosenkina had been brought there from an anti-Soviet refugee camp in New York by Consul General Jacob Lomakin (TIME, Aug. 16). Had she been kidnaped by the Reds? Or had she been rescued, as they insisted, from "White Russian bandits...
...Blake H. Rand, 84, was elected to his 61st term as town clerk...