Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blaze Starr sparks this week's all-new travelling show at the Casino. Also, Countess Barrassy, just in from Versailles. Shows at 12 noon, 2:30 p.m., 7:15 p.m., but, according to a friend, you get twice your money's worth at the late performance, 10 p.m. Ladies invited...
...high and chest proudly puffed, Caroli turned his eyes to honor his President, Giovanni Gronchi. That salute was his undoing; he tripped and sprawled awkwardly before the presidential box. Somehow he hung onto the torch. Seconds later he skated on to light the great bowl of fire that will blaze until the seventh Winter Olympic Games are over...
...five saxes play with savage bite or else hum in their eerie, split harmonies behind a pagan trumpet solo; the three trombones clip off their own high-swinging ensemble passages; and the four trumpets blaze away with such ferocity that the effect becomes strangely airy and bodiless. But the chief reason for all the internal excitement is the Duke's new drummer, Sam Woodyard. He sits, lean and still, behind his battery, neatly punctuating every phrase, coming as close as any man could to playing a tune on his four side drums and three cymbals (he actually squeezes pitch...
...what's more, Nikita, here's another bit of good news. While you were so busy over there, old godfather's boys were making fools of themselves over at the UN. That should make the old yule log blaze up bright and cheery next week. And don't worry, if you get yourself into another jam with that peace-and-good-will malarky you've been spreading around, why just drop a note to J.F.D. I'm sure he'll help you out. His address is 2100 Virginia Avenue, Washington...
...London Observer Correspondent Philip Deane photographed a Burmese soldier demonstrating a mine detector at Mandalay airport, just before the arrival of Khrushchev and Bulganin. A 6-ft. MVD plainclothesman rushed the Burmese soldier to try to stop the picture. The incident, recorded on TV film, made Serov blaze with anger. "Who took that lying photograph?" he demanded later. When other Western newsmen refused to tell him, he got madder. "In Russia," he said, "a man who took that picture would be beaten up." When finally a trembling Soviet newsman identified Deane, he cried: "Are you the man who stage-managed...