Word: debut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, grizzled Bronx Democratic Boss Ed Flynn, who had just made his debut as an author (You're the Boss, TIME, Sept. 8), made a more characteristic sound. He hoped Tom Dewey would win the Republican presidential nomination because, he said: "I'm sure Truman can beat him in New York...
...played an all-Gershwin concert under Paul Whiteman's baton; it struggled through an evening of "Music of the Americas" led by Xavier Cugat (who complained bitterly during, a 1946 rehearsal that the orchestra failed to "pay him any respect"); it accompanied Margaret Truman's concert debut...
Last week, in his Brooklyn debut, big (6 ft. 3 in.) Dan Bankhead, fifth Negro player to reach the majors, winged Pirate Outfielder Wally Westlake with a fast ball. A few breaths were tight-held-this might be the "incident" that many baseball men had feared. But Westlake trotted casually down to first. It was clear that, within the space of a single season, fans and players alike were beginning to take Negro players for granted...
Dressed in spotless white satin, with a pink ribbon in her curly black hair, Margaret made her debut as a concert pianist last week in Chicago's Carey Temple (African Methodist Episcopal). She gave the audience a curtsy, saw that her doll Rosezarian was seated on a chair beside the grand piano, then clambered up on the bench and began a Bach minuet. After that and a selection from Mozart's Magic Flute, her teacher had to ask the audience to hold their applause until the first part of the recital was over. Altogether, Margaret played 14 pieces...
Ormandy & Orchids. Two hours before concert time, the audience began filing into the huge amphitheater. Many had heard Margaret's radio debut from Detroit last spring, and they wanted to find out for sure whether she really had an operatic voice...