Word: avon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Best newcomers: Judith Evelyn, as the harassed, hysterical wife in Angel Street, Avon Long as the brilliantly capering Sportin' Life in Porgy and Bess...
Playing the title roles they made famous in 1935, Todd Duncan and Anne Brown acted capably, sang delightfully. Best new comer: Avon Long, who, as the dope peddler Sportin' Life, darted and capered with salamander-like skill...
...Avon, Conn...
Fired with enthusiasm, Professor Troxell started looking for resonant rocks, found an ideal deposit of them in a 200-million-year-old lava bed atop Avon Mountain near his home in Hertford. Toting a load of particularly clangorous cobbles home with him, Professor Troxell set them in a row, chipped them into tune with the aid of a chisel and a 10? pitch pipe. When he was through, he had a complete C Major scale three octaves long...
...Charlotte, N.C. City Council changed the name of Lindbergh Drive to Avon Terrace...