Word: armstrong
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...most popular female performers ever to appear at the Stadium (one who topped her: Marian Anderson, who drew 23,000 in 1940). Sutherland's crowd was a notch above last year's high (19,500 for Pianist Van Cliburn) and not far behind Trumpeter Louis Armstrong's (21,000 in 1957). But she was still an octave or two behind Lewisohn's champion crowd pullers: Harry Belafonte (over 25,000 in 1956) and Ezio (South Pacific) Pinza, whose virile basso cantante and brawny frame also drew over 25,000 fans...
With a somewhat surprising cast of heroes--Jack Spitzberg, Chris Ohiri, Hobie Armstrong, Hank Hatch, and Jack Jones--the varsity track team upset Yale Saturday in their Stadium...
Ohiri and Armstrong contributed four key points by talking second and third behind Jay Luck of Yale in a 9.9 100. Both edged out Bulldog Wendell Mottley, seemingly a sure bet for second place even though he had run--and won--the 440 in 48.6 ten minutes before. Armstrong also took the hop, step, and jump...
Ohirl, counted on for points in the 100 yard dash, broad jump, and hop, step, and jump, will be out of the meet with a heel injury. Thus Sid Marland and Marty Beckwith in the broad jump and Marland, Hobie Armstrong, and Zeko Azikiwe in the hop, step, and jump, will have to come through in spades to give the varsity the points it needs in these events...
...Floyd Patterson, Baseball-Hall-of-Famer Jackie Robinson, Singers Marian Anderson. Harry Belafonte, Nat King Cole, Lena Home and Johnny Mathis, who was the only one of the bunch to place among the 35 Negro millionaires. One famous name missing from the list: high-living Horn Man Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, 61, who once earned $20,000 a week tooting a trumpet with what came to be known as his "million-dollar lips...