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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be fitting to say that Van Cliburn's talent was discovered in June 1952, when, at the age of 17, he received the Chopin Scholarship of $1,000 from the Kosciuszko Foundation. This will surely gladden the hearts of the captive people of Poland and of all U.S. citizens of Polish descent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 9, 1958 | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...week rock-'n'-roll tour of Britain, Tennessee's flaxen-haired Jerry Lee Lewis, 22, made himself at home in the headlines. The tiny, pony-tailed Mississippi schoolgirl he had brought with him, he proudly announced, was none other than his third wife, Myra. Her age: 15. When reporters gaped, Lewis, resplendent in blue velvet trousers, casually drawled: "I can assure you that my wife is all woman, even though she looks kinda young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Americans Abroad | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

With some distaste, London journalists did their best to explain to their readers the strange marital customs of the U. S. South. But it soon turned out that Mrs. Lewis was even kinda younger than her husband saw fit to say. Memphis court records showed her age to be 13, and her quickie marriage last December took place more than five months before Jerry's divorce from wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Americans Abroad | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...Humanities in the Age of Science" will be fought over by J.N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature; John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature; and Perry G.E. Miller, professor of American Literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Berle Will Give '58 PBK Speech | 6/3/1958 | See Source »

...lawyer, a remarkably active man for his age, gets the actress; the lawyer's son gets the lawyer's second wife; the Count gets the Countess (ha!); and the maid is about to make the stablekeeper marry her. Everything is taken lightly...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: Smiles of a Summer Night and An Alligator Named Daisy | 6/3/1958 | See Source »

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