Word: debuted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second half of the intramural season opens, local deposters agree that the Eliot eleven has a virtual stranglehold on the championship; but this afternoon will mark the debut of Dudley's commuters, rumored to be a possible dark horse contender, against Kirkland. The new eleven may provide the sailors with more competition than they have had to date...
...sour-grapes Private Dawn Van Horn's letter of criticism of the Tysons' $40,000 debut [TIME, Oct. 1], something should be said: 1) the whole letter glows green with envy; 2) the old principle of live & let live is still a good one; 3) it seems doubtful she's as much worried about the needs of "a thousand American girls" as she is about her getting the Van Horn hands on "a fur coat and a swell watch"; 4) someone should tell Private Van Horn what part intolerance played in starting the war she was just...
...Carmen, Rigoletto, Germont in Traviata, the Ethiopian King in Aïda and Valentin in Faust). Last week his chance came-from New York's municipal, low-priced opera company, presided over by a self-conscious champion of race equality. Mayor F. H. LaGuardia. Todd Duncan made his debut in I Pagliacci, followed it two nights later with Carmen. Sympathetic audiences cheered him long. Critics were almost as loud in praise of his singing, hoped his acting would improve. Musically, LaGuardia's opera company is a lot farther away from the Met than the 15 blocks that separate...
...them, jovial, Kentucky-born Robert Todd (for A. Lincoln's boy) Duncan, 41, has never given up hope of getting into grand opera. After teaching music and English in Louisville (Ky.) City College and Washington's Howard University, he made his operatic debut in Manhattan in an all-Negro version of Cavalleria Rusticana. George Gershwin read the rave reviews, gave Baritone Duncan the lead in Porgy and Bess. He has since sung the part more than 1,200 times. He has also made concert tours, taught singing, had a key spot in Broadway's Cabin...
...life I've wanted a few things a young girl needs and prays for. So today I read about a $40,000 debut. Then I think that a thousand of American girls like myself could have gotten a watch or a coat, maybe braces for her teeth with a bit of money spent so lavishly and foolishly. . . . While we skimp and save and do without so much that could make us happy. I am a private in the Army . . . draw monthly $36. ... I'll bum cigarets when I am broke, but I'll never admire or respect...