Word: famed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charlie Ames and Hilliard Hughes play at three and four against Bowdoin today. They combine at the number two doubles position. At the singles five and six slots are Jack Frey and Jay Robb. Dave Key of ice fame joins Robb in the third doubles combination. In spite of a comparatively late starting season and the usually poor Hub tennis weather, these four have rounded into shape...
...that turned last year's Sitting Pretty into a smash box-office hit. Mr. Belvedere is no longer a babysitter, but he is still insufferably and hilariously patronizing; he is still a self-confessed genius and he is still broke. His bestselling book, Hummingbird Hill, has won him fame, but lost him a fortune in libel suits. All he has left is a $10,000 prize which he can collect only by taking a college degree. With acidulous hauteur, he enrolls as a freshman at Clemens University, gets a job as hasher at the Triple Gamma sorority house...
Welcott, one of two seniors on a sophomore-dominated pitching staff, gained fame two years ago when he became the first pitcher in Princeton history to shut out Harvard and Yale in the same season. As a sophomore that year, Wolcott compiled a 5-2 record and was the League's most effective pitcher with a 1.08 earned run average. Last year he lipped to 3-8 and so far this season he has stopped Vilanova (no a three-hit shutout) and Muhlenberg, and has been beaten by Navy. Totally blind in one eye, Wolcott has excellent control...
Then Ann Neville, a seven-year old girl, skimmed across the pool three times in a fine medley exhibition. Soon thereafter, her brother, five-year old Georgia, stole the diving show from a Miss Dean, a brown-skinned plunger of NYU and Bermuda Aquacade fame...
...Though the concert was sponsored by the Pierian Sodality, it was appropriate that Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge took her customary seat in the front row. Under her auspices, the duet made its debut in Sanders seven years ago, and in later concerts which she supported they achieved their unsurpassed fame...