Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jungle. I ask of any new production: Is it helping to push back the jungle or is it, by carelessness or treachery, letting another patch of strangling green encroach upon the walls?" Last year, even before a new mystery called Signpost to Murder had a chance to make its debut. Levin made up his mind that it would be one more case of jungle rot. "Don't tell me, let me guess," Levin wrote sarcastically in the Express, speculating in advance on just how bad the play was going to be. Infuriated. Producer Emile Littler withdrew his first-night...
...rumors were right. Forty-eight hours after Volovchenko, 46, made his Pravda debut, he was named Russia's farm boss, succeeding the hapless Konstantin Pysin, who had held the job for less than a year. During his brief tenure, Pysin tried his best to coax more production from the collectivized peasantry. He even squeezed in a month-long tour of U.S. farm lands last September, hoping to pick up a few pointers. Alas, nothing seemed to help. The Soviet grain harvest last year was 16 million tons less than the quota under the seven-year plan, and Nikita Khrushchev...
Last year, a 17-year-old singer named Kenny Karen made his grandly promoted debut with a song called Susie, Forgive Me, in which the hero robs a candy store after paralyzing Susie by smashing his car into a tree...
...Lucy Show (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Lucille Ball's eleven-year-old daughter Lucie Arnaz will make her debut as the girl friend of her mother's TV daughter...
...wrote an excellent song called Lament to Love and sold it to Harry James, but James took so long to play it that by the time it became a hit, all Mel's friends had already decided he was a liar. At 21, he made his New York debut as a singer with Mitzi Green at the Copacabana. "An egotistical, untalented little amateur," said Dorothy Kilgallen, and Earl Wilson said, "I'll take Mitzi; to hell with Mel." Mel was so deeply stung that he remembers the quotes verbatim to this...