Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time with clenched fists. When his cues came, he played with such sympathy and taste that the audience stormed applause, the gentle critics went home to praise unreservedly an outstanding young wonder, Julius ("Buddy") Katchen, II. Prodigy Katchen had been "discovered" by Conductor Eugene Ormandy (who himself made his debut at 7), had been given a preliminary hearing before the Philadelphia Orchestra Club, recently organized to stimulate youthful interest in the city's music...
Ellen Wilson McAdoo, 22, daughter of California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, granddaughter of President Woodrow Wilson, made her professional singing debut as a lyric soprano with a WPA Federal Music Project unit in Glendale, Calif...
...institutional editorial, run daily in the London Times over the by-line "Callisthenes" (the personal biographer of Alexander the Great). The "Callisthenes" articles caught British fancy at once, have long been profitable for the store. Two months ago Selfridge's "Callisthenes" hopped the sea, made its debut as an advertisement in New York's Herald Tribune. U. S. storekeepers wondered why. Last week they had a chance to find out when dapper little Mr. Selfridge himself popped up in Manhattan...
...between Minnesota, and Nebraska-was one in which an upset was inevitable. Minnesota, which had lost only one game (to Northwestern in the mud last year) since 1932, was being touted as the most highly regarded team in the U. S. But Major Lawrence ("Biff") Jones was making his debut as Nebraska's coach, and Major Jones had never in his coaching career lost an opening game...
...first year at Springfield College (Mass.) where his father Amos Alonzo Stagg made his coaching debut 47 years ago. Coach Paul Stagg saw his team trounced by Harvard...