Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavyweight, Al Culbert will make his varsity debut, having recently been declared eligible for competition. He was undefeated as a freshman, but spent two years in the service...
Still, at Christchurch last week, Ken tried again, and with desperate brilliance, pulled out a match, 2-6, 8-10, 6-3, 6-3, 9-7. It was only the second time in nine matches that Rosewall had won-a disquieting pro debut for World Champion Gonzales' latest high-paid ($65,000 plus) victim, but not a cause for despair. "Ken is only 22," said Pancho. "He will not be at his best until...
...Girl Can't Help It (20th Century-Fox) marks the debut as a movie star of Jayne Mansfield, who has already achieved a tape measure's worth of fame through publicity stills. The plot is frankly built around the 23-year-old platinum blonde's physical proportions. A gangster who wants to marry Jayne has given an agent six weeks to build her up into a famous singer. The agent protests: "Rome wasn't built in a day." The gangster retorts: "She ain't Rome. She's built...
Radio Workshop (Sun. 4:05 p.m., CBS). Sophie Tucker in her dramatic debut...
Kaye's TV debut. The Secret Life of Danny Kaye, on CBS's See It Now, was a 90-minute film of one of the most widely staged and widely publicized benefits in show-business history. The subject: Kaye's bone-bruising, tongue-twisting, 35,000-mile junket around most of the world on behalf of the nonpolitical United Nations Children's Fund. The stars: Danny Kaye in a multitude of piquant, nimble versions, and hundreds of the 40 million underprivileged children who have received milk, shoes and medical aid from UNICEF. The show was filmed...