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Word: debutitis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Willie Hartack, three-time (1955-56-57) national jockey champion, made his debut as a jumping rider at New Jersey's Monmouth Park, gave Mielaison a near-perfect ride over the ten-jump, 1¾-mile course, won by 4½ lengths, announced: "It was a greater thrill than winning the Kentucky Derby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Aug. 4, 1958 | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

Herself an acid-tongued footnote to British history, Virginia-born Lady Astor gaily recalled her debut as first woman seated in the Mother of Parliaments (in 1919). Escorted on her entrance by Lloyd George and A. J. Balfour-"both of whom were trembling, they were so ashamed"-Lady Astor even stirred up a critique on her big moment from a clarion-voiced observer: "Afterwards Sir Winston Churchill said I had made a very remarkable performance-but he would only speak to me in the lobby, not in the House. He said: 'When you entered, I felt you had come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 28, 1958 | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

Died. Eyvind Laholm (real name: Edwin Johnson), 64, Wisconsin-born operatic tenor who sang in Europe for 14 years before making his debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House in 1939, was once Adolf Hitler's favorite singer; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 28, 1958 | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...proposition and gets so vexed that two full days pass before she surrenders her virginity. Then he marries her. But the regime that he and his countrymen have created will not leave him alone. His old professor (played with austere dignity by Author Remarque, in his film debut) lives in terror of the SS; a Jewish friend hides out miserably in a bombed-out cathedral; a Gestapo officer hands him a cigar box containing the ashes of his bride's father. Worst of all, the Allied air forces refuse to let bygones be bygones, systematically pound his pretty city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 28, 1958 | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

Well, I never thought I'd ever see James Mason singing, soft-shoeing, and straw-hatting his way through old vaudeville routines. But this is precisely what he is doing this week in his Boston stage debut. He evidently had the same yen that Sir Laurence Olivier recently satisfied in John Osborne's The Entertainer; and what's more, both Mason's material and performance are superior to Olivier...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: MID-SUMMER | 7/17/1958 | See Source »

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