Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daughter of a Larchmont, N.Y., doctor ("He calls himself an internist, which is really a G.P., but he charges a little more"), Joan made her debut in 1960 in a Boston nightclub. She was billed as "Pepper January, Comedy and Spice." She was fired the first night...
...newsmen are of the very word "show," the smell of grease paint still clings to their programs. Last week CBS announced that its newsmen would be making one-shot appearances on entertainment shows to publicize their election-night broadcasts. Thus Cronkite, among others, will soon make his debut on I've Got a Secret and Captain Kangaroo...
...business," he bluntly told KMBC, "and it isn't radio's business." He finally accepted, though, at double his U.P. salary, which, after ten years, was still only $125 a week. When the Korean war broke out, he was hired by CBS and made an impromptu TV debut giving a lecture on the war, complete with chalk and blackboard. He was such a hit that against his better judgment he was soon shifted to television news. "It was a time," he says, "when no self-respecting newsman wanted anything to do with this new electronic beast...
...Julius Caesar last week was just minutes old when Contralto Maureen Forrester fixed hand to forehead, shuddered "Woe unto me," and fainted dead away. Contralto roles are like that, full of weeping and despair, the tragic counterweights that support the romantic leads. Forrester, making her U.S. operatic debut, flawlessly performed the role of Cornelia, effortlessly pouring out great billows of plum-shaded singing that served as a lush backdrop for the vocal scrollwork of the other principal singers. Where they thrilled, she caressed. Predictably, the heaviest applause went to Soprano Beverly Sills as Cleopatra and Bass-Baritone Norman Treigle...
Coming this early in the season, the Amherst-Harvard game must be rated a toss-up. It should tell Coach Munro a great deal about his team, and, on top of Penn's opener at Brown and Columbia's debut at Princeton today, should provide the first meaningful line on the 1966 Ivy League race...