Word: debuted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been told by the "escort subcommittee" that one of the two boys whose names she had submitted as her escorts was unacceptable. Reason: though a member of the Episcopal Church, the boy was "Jewish." The club's board of governors later confirmed the decision. The girl canceled her debut. The boy, a recent convert, was reported "so hurt that he refused to go to church on Christmas Sunday...
Mark Mullin reacted the only way anyone could have to the stupendous ballyhoo attending his big-time debut, but the Crimson track team may have found a future immortal Saturday night at the K. of C. track meet at the Boston Garden...
...Metropolitan Opera debut in the title role of Gluck's Alcestis (TIME, Dec. 19), Soprano Eileen Farrell, 40, left her fans cheering a reputation instead of a performance: the fabled power and warmth were there, but the voice wobbled shrilly in the upper registers. Last week, appearing in some of the Met's fastest company (Mezzo Nell Rankin, Tenor Richard Tucker, Baritone Robert Merrill), Singer Farrell made her second Met start-the title role in Ponchielli's La Gioconda. Blonde-wigged and almost wobble-free, she supplied the spectacular singing her audience had come to hear...
...hockey varsity will make its Ivy League debut this week-end on a read trip including games with Cornell and Colgate. The Crimson is favored to win both contests, although Cornell, by dint of a strong sophomore contingent, is much improved over last year's team...
Died. Clara Haskil, 65, Rumanian-born concert pianist who made her debut in Vienna at seven, won her first Grand Prix in Paris at 14, later played sonatas with such luminaries as Violinists Enesco and Ysaye, Cellist Casals; of injuries suffered in a fall; in a railroad station in Brussels...