Word: combos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fifth round Chuvalo had forced the champ to wobble momentarily against the ropes after absorbing a hard combo to the jaw. By the start of the sixth, Clay had cut his clowning and disdainful attitude toward the challenger...
...Ronald Colmans, gave lavish garden parties, darted in and out of the gossip columns and society pages like a butterfly. There were self-deprecating chortles ("My profile looks like a fish") and gag-filled larks (the papers ran a picture of him playing an accordion in a combo with Greer Garson on maracas, Danny Kaye on bass and Cesar Romero on fiddle). He dubbed the piano score for a film (I've Always Loved You) and collected $85,000 for the three days' work. His RCA Victor records sold so well that he called his place "The House That Victor...
...Combo...
...Other early names for the combo: the Nurk Twins, the Quarrymen Skiffle Group, the Cavemen, the Moondogs, the Moonshiners...
...auction's end, COMBO happily counted up the proceeds. They amounted to $230,000-enough to buy the symphony a portable acoustical shell, to finance an opera production of Faust, and to start construction on a new rehearsal hall for the Old Globe Theater...