Word: debuted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ruth St. Denis, 61, opened the International Dance Festival at Lee, Mass, with the same program in which she made her New York debut 35 years ago. "Many Oriental dancers reach their prime at 60," she pointed out. ∙∙ Gypsy Rose Lee, who has turned author, written The G-String Murder Mystery for fall publication, declared in Detroit: "No more movies or Broadway for me. I like the saloons, where I can work as long as I want to and lay off when I want to. ∙∙ Matinee Idol Francis Lederer married Marion Irvine four days after...
Fifty years ago Paderewski made his U.S. debut, a glamorous figure with a red-gold mane which excited the Pre-Raphaelite painters of the day. Red-blooded males snorted at "this Paderooski," but everywhere he drew adoring throngs, from whom policemen sometimes had to rescue...
Anne Bullitt, motherless little rich girl who presided as first lady at the gloomy U.S. Embassy in Moscow back in 1934, was introduced to grown-up Washington society last week, will make her formal debut at Philadelphia on the 27th. Heiress to the Philadelphia Bullitt fortune, sophisticated beyond her years from Embassy life with father in Moscow and Paris, "finished" at Foxcroft, she is a dark-haired beauty in her own right...
...Marquess of Clydesdale, the Duke was Scotland's amateur middleweight boxing champion, an excellent skier, one of the first men to fly over Everest. His debut in politics was less successful. While standing for Parliament he discouraged his Conservative backers by giving the same speech at all election meetings, getting booed when he tried another...
After being commissioned he made a short China Sea debut, but much of his early naval life was spent in teaching posts ashore, almost all of his later career in Navy politics in Paris. He became a gunnery expert-often called the best in the French Navy today-and was a fervid big-navy exponent, doing much to promote the construction of France's four 35,000-ton battleships, which were laid down just too late for World...