Word: debuted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Transatlantic's 64-page debut fell short of the prospectus. Author Van Doren's discussion of his Dutch-English ancestry and why he is nonetheless American was more charming than illuminating. Ellsworth Huntington, Yale professor of geography, discussed What Geography Does To America with too much educational zeal and a faint flavor of patronage. Paul Gallico relieved this solemn though unponderous tone with a lightweight piece designed to prove that Americans love baseball because it is their one escape from female domination...
...pulling into the Budapest station. His father was a Hungarian advertising man. By the end of World War I Lukas was a Hungarian aviator. Then for two years he was a bit player and chorus man. Spotted by the Comedy Theater in Budapest, Lukas made his big-time Budapest debut as Liliom...
Ever since the Radar Rockettes made their debut, the Cruft Laboratory has not been the same. There was a time when one could enter the austere building and walk through quiet, dignified halls. Now all is changed. An undercurrent of swing is plainly discernible and one has the jivy feeling that a hepcat session is somewhere in progress though hidden from the electronic eyes of student and faculty...
...announcement of Frankie's appearance in the Hollywood Bowl had thrown Los Angeles high-brow music lovers into a self-righteous williwaw, Sinatra's fans at Pasadena, where he got off the train, into a squealing ecstasy (see cut). But Frankie's Los Angeles symphonic debut was like the calm after the storm...
...amateur magician, Professor Chaffee, directs the "Slide Rule Symphony" made up of his colleagues and officers from the Radar School. First debut of the orchestra was at a party last April at which the feature presentation was "Deep in the Heart of Texas" a la Chaffee. Chaffee himself plays the cornet and cello...