Word: debutitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...erect, grey-haired little woman, smiling before the skirl of applause. As it drummed on, she leaped from the stage like a 20-year-old ballerina. "You can't imagine," said 71-year-old Marie Rambert, "with what fear and trembling we came here." Occasion: the U.S. debut of the Ballet Rambert, Britain's oldest dance company...
...much of an actress, and her face was obviously not going to be her fortune, but she had a magnificent body, and within two years of her debut the fact was proclaimed in the Manhattan press, which pronounced her the "ideal woman." Overnight, Belle became The Body of her generation. Reporters wrote paeans to her "poetic legs." Barnum offered her $1,000 a week to star in one of his sideshows. Diamond Jim Brady squired her about. Teddy Roosevelt came to her flat with friends and enjoyed himself so thoroughly that he sent Belle a full set of Haviland china...
Finished with his acting debut as the judge in the film version of the bestselling Anatomy of a Murder, courtly old (68) Boston Barrister Joseph Welch good-naturedly allowed: "They lied to me. They told me when I became an actor that it would be fun and easy. Fun it was. Easy it was not. The only way I could be persuaded to go back into films would be if someone wrote a part that would fit me as well as this...
...family's baby grand, plus a $250 gift from the Cleveland Society for Strings and the loan of a $40,000 Stradivarius. Jaime's victory brought him $3,000 in prize money. He is now concertizing in Belgium, and will soon start practicing for his Manhattan debut -in Carnegie Hall next fall...
President Pusey accepted an honorary degree for Harvard University last week from the Rockefeller Institute. It was among the first eight citations bestowed by the Institute, which marked its debut as an academic insitution...