Word: debut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only real U.S. hope in the six-man field was a young (21), skinny and bespectacled University of Wisconsin junior named Don Gehrmann, making his bigtime indoor debut. For weeks, track circles had buzzed with rumors about Gehrmann's sensational time trials in Madison: his coaches claimed to have clocked him in 4:06.1, only .8 sec. off Gil Dodds's indoor record. If that was not a mistake, Gehrmann could be the best miler on the boards...
...Lucky Stiff (Amusement Enterprises; United Artists) features that rather shady lawyer-detective named John J. Malone who figures prominently in a number of Craig Rice whodunits. It is also the not-too-promising debut of radio's Jack Benny as a movie producer (and financial backer...
Still without its musical accompaniment, Wednesday's 7:30 premiere for club members and special guests will be held behind the closed doors of Lamont Library's new Forum room. Official debut for the production is sometime in May, when special music will have been dubbed in and final polish put on the Celluloid opus...
...brilliant mezzo-soprano, glided through songs by Gluck, Haydn, Schubert, Rossini, Mahler, Ravel and De-Falla; the performance came to an end with the Sleep-Walking Scene from Verdi's Macbeth. The audience shuffled their programs to look at the name again. Thirtyish Elena Nikolaidi, making her U.S. debut and almost unknown outside Athens and Vienna, had achieved one of the smash hits of the season...
Harper's boys started the season auspiciously with a 46-40 victory over Brown December 4. In their Cambridge debut the freshmen lost to Northeastern 71-52. Then they travelled to Hartford on the 16th to administer a 43-37 defeat to Trinity...