Word: bronx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ROBERTA PETERS, who comes from The Bronx, and, like Patrice Munsel, studies with William Herman. A chirrupy young (21) soprano and a born actress, she made a surprise hit as Zerlina in Don Giovanni last year. Sopranos Peters and Munsel are mutual admirers: Roberta keeps a scrapbook on Patrice, and Patrice, who often sits through Roberta's lessons, admiringly pronounces Roberta "great...
...chaos. "I never saw two fighters more evenly matched," says one fight fan to another as two plug-uglies are hauled unconscious from the ring. During a six-day bicycle race, an announcer barks into the publicaddress system: "Mr. and Mrs. Herman L. Lembaugh, of 435 Grand Concourse, The Bronx, offer their only daughter, Ethel, to the winner of a five-lap sprint...
...Susie, the 360-lb. giant panda which had been the idol of zoo-going New York moppets, died of causes unknown at the Bronx Zoo, Susie's home for ten of her eleven years, leaving only two of her species (at Chicago and St. Louis) in captivity. Susie will be hard to replace; giant pandas live in western Szechwan in Red China...
...score any South African player ever made in a test match. But later, at Old Trafford, the Manchester cricket ground, Rowan made a different kind of sensation. When the crowd decided, he was "stonewalling" (i.e., batting a wholly defensive game), it gave him cricket's equivalent of a Bronx cheer-slow, rhythmic handclaps. Infuriated, Rowan sat down on the "pitch" (the ground between the two wickets), and signaled his batting partner to do the same until the "barracking" died down...
...party can virtually ensure that its leaders keep their seats by assigning them to "safe" (i.e., traditionally loyal) constituencies. Under such a system, for example, Dean Acheson would have to run for office; and the Democratic National Committee would likely run him in Boss Flynn's safest Bronx district, or in the surest Democratic part of the Deep South. Robert Taft would be given a safe Republican seat in Maine or Vermont...