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Word: debutitis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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They played for anybody who would listen, often without pay, and soon hit on the idea of lecture-concerts. Since its Colorado debut, the LaSalle has given 150 of them, and as many regular concerts. Last academic year it played for the public schools in Colorado Springs, and soon found students dragging their parents to evening concerts. Now the members of the group are local celebrities; they are stopped on the streets by autograph hunters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Argument for Strings | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

Softcover, tough-guy Author Mickey (My Gun Is Quick) Spillane was all set for his acting debut as co-star with Lion Trainer Clyde Beatty of the 3-D film Man-Killer. His main screen assets: a squint, a crew cut, 5 ft. 8 in. of muscles. Spillane, in the manner of his hero, gore-spilling Private Eye Mike Hammer, will play a detective in hot pursuit of a homicidal maniac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 13, 1953 | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

Making her movie debut in the title role, girlish, pixyish Metropolitan Opera Star Patrice Munsel, 27, is not very successful in re-creating Melba's tempestuous personality. But Songstress Munsel is handsomely gowned and in good voice as she sings a wide selection of numbers, from the Mad Scene in Lucia to Comin' Thro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 13, 1953 | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

...years since his stage debut at Webster, little Harry Crosby, better known as Bing, has been converted into something like a public utility in the entertainment business. After 25 years of fame, Bing's voice, on records, still fills U.S. airwaves, and his name on a movie marquee is as big a draw, year in year out, as any name in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bathroom Baritone Inc. | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

...took a long stride forward with the debut of Maurice Evans and 80 tons of scenery in a two-hour production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Time News Quiz: The Time News Quiz, Jun. 22, 1953 | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

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