Word: debutitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Logically selling Registers at registration, the Publications staff would increase both the sales and efficiency of the book. Due to its tardy winter debut, the Register now is not a guide for freshmen, but only a delayed memento of their first term in college...
Blonde Patricia McCormick, 23, who left Texas Western College two years ago determined to master the rugged art of bullfighting, survived her first "baptism of blood." The pert torera, who made her professional debut in Juárez last year and has faced some 20 bulls in small rings, was practicing passes with a small but sharp-horned cow on a ranch near Aguascalientes. Mexico. In the middle of a pass, Pat snapped her cape too quickly. The cow charged and gored her in the right thigh. In the hospital, where doctors treated a ten-inch gash, Pat said...
Paul Badura-Skoda's music had been spinning off phonographs for two years before he decided to take a personal whirl at a U.S. concert tour. Last week, after performances in 16 other cities, the young (25) Viennese pianist made his Manhattan debut...
...audience came close to breaking all records for a debut; some 1,500 listeners crowded into Town Hall. Most of them were there because they had heard some of the pianist's 26 recordings (Westminster) of classical concertos, sonatas and ensemble music. Badura-Skoda gave them some honest, sensitive musicmaking, too conscious of European piano traditions to be very exciting, but with passages of rare expressiveness. His performance was well above the average of the so-odd novices who bow every year...
...Richard Jaeckel) neck in the parlor. Forsaking his usual swashbuckling roles, Burt Lancaster plays the sleepwalking Doc with great earnestness, but his performance frequently makes the character seem wooden rather than frustrated. It is in Shirley Booth's characterization that the movie really catches fire. Making her screen debut at 45, after some twoscore years of success on stage and radio (she was the original Miss Duffy of Duffy's Tavern), auburn-haired Actress Booth, shiftlessly waddling around and prattling away endlessly in a singsong voice, does a highly skillful job of bringing the gabby, good-natured, slatternly...