Word: ace
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field, at least, the Russians were still ace-high with Americans last week. Billboard magazine reported that their classical composers led the U.S. hit parade in 1947. And the most popular of them all was Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky. Victor listed his Nutcracker Suite, Piano Concerto No. 1 and Violin Concerto among its top best-selling classical albums of the year, and Nutcracker was one of Columbia's big sellers...
...Clafiin will probably meet Bob Runyon instead of last year's against graduated Columbia ace, Horvath. At 165 Ray Rogers will wrestle his first meet of the year against experienced Lion Harry Kiender while Don Lauria has dropped down a class to take the place of injured Sandy Jones and will face Columbia's Bruce Gilman...
...pecan free in Bixby, Oklahoma, won a clear-cut decision by a fall over 155-pound wrestler Sandy Jones on Tuesday, December 23, and succeeded in putting Chief Boston's sophomore ace on the injured list for the rest of the season...
Born. To Deborah Kerr, 26, copper-haired British cinemactress (Colonel Blimp, The Adventuress), who has thus far survived her M-G-Metamorphosis into a Hollywood star (The Hucksters), and Anthony Bartley, 28, ace Spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britain: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Melanie Jane Bartley. Weight...
From loudspeakers in Soviet homes, parks, and on street corners the deep, resonant voice of Radio Moscow's ace announcer, Yuri Levitan, boomed bad & good news. Soviet citizens grew taut with strain as they listened to Levitan read a state decree. When he finished they erupted with grief or joy depending on the number of rubles each had hoarded under his mattress. The decree abolished: 1) 90% of all unbanked individual savings; 2) rationing of food and clothing...