Word: debuted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debutante industry," twinkled the New York Star, "was trying to recover its aplomb." But it was still reeling, said the Star, from the news that tall, lissome Joanne Connelley was going to forgo her debut and get married instead. The man of her choice was Robert Sweeny, 37, an ex-amateur golf champion, ex-combat pilot, and onetime heavy beau of Babs Hutton and Lady Stanley...
...Farce. Last June, Pamela Curran, another of the year's prettiest, had abruptly called off a $20,000 debut at her mother's Long Island estate. She said she was going to France instead. Said Pamela: "The idea used to be that you never went out at all until your debut, and then it was something to look forward to. But now people start going out when they're twelve, and it's a farce...
...thing, New York "society" has never been able to shut its top drawer (as more settled towns have, or pretend to have); socialites, cafe socialites, climbers and hangers-on buzz across the city's night life like a queenless swarm. But the hard fact was that the debut was becoming an anachronism. In a less strident day, when children were seen and not heard, a debut was at least as significant as the unveiling of a civic monument. If it uncovered nothing the audience had not seen before, it was at least official and marked the removal...
When he arrived from Russia, he was out to burn up the U.S. with his razzle-dazzle speed. In his debut with the New York Philharmonic, he raced through the Tchaikovsky B flat minor concerto so fast that gouty Sir Thomas Beecham would not even try to keep up with him. By 1935, in the heyday of his elegant pink period (when he indulged in pink striped shirts and red ties), Horowitz was playing more than 70 concerts a year, and grossing about $300,000. Then he folded, up, with appendicitis complicated by phlebitis...
...magician, and passes the way no sophomore should. There are many be talented backs--ones like Joe Sullivan, who played all of Dartmouth's a major games last year, missing only minutes during the season. Hal Fitts runs too fast, and another sophomore, Gil Mueller, is supposed to make debut tomorrow in the Stadium...