Word: debut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best to be afraid of everybody," Goodman says. "If you get cocky, you're sure to get beaten." But coach M. C. Chase, making his debut with the Crimson lights this year, says the crew doesn't have anything to be cocky about at the moment. "I think we have good potential," he indicates, "but we have only three men back from last year's varsity. Every race will be a tough one, because everyone we face will be out to snap our streak...
...made his picture debut, two-week-old John Clark Gable was billed by his mama as "a carbon copy" of his late cinema-king father. Purred a radiant Kay Williams Spreckels Gable: "When. I compare Clark's baby pictures with those of John, they are practically identical. He has a crop of dark brown hair just like his father's, and his little fingers and legs are really Clark...
With little of the drum-beating that preceded the debuts this season of Anna Moffo, Eileen Farrell and Leontyhe Price, the Metropolitan Opera last week introduced Manhattan audiences to yet another fine American soprano-Hartford-born Gianna D'Angelo. Soprano D'Angelo, 31, made her debut portraying one of the silliest of all operatic heroines, Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto. But she triumphed over the role with such apparent ease that by evening's end she was firmly fixed as one of the Met's most promising sopranos...
Born Jane Angelovich of Yugoslavian-descended parents, Soprano D'Angelo made her singing debut when she was three on a radio child-talent show, spent the next several years studying tap dancing and piano. By the time she was 17, she realized that she was a better singer than tap dancer, in 1950 embarked for Italy to study, made her operatic debut (as Gilda) at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome when she was 24. On that occasion she had with her the good-luck charm she had at the Met last week-a toy cat whose beneficent influence...
...started to play a toy xylophone like an old hand, soon afterward was playing piano on the radio. At 13, Byron Yanks, who shortly became Byron Janis, left home for good to study with a succession of teachers, finally becoming the only pupil of Vladimir Horowitz. He made his debut at 15 with the Pittsburgh Symphony, since then has been one of the most widely traveled of U.S. pianists...