Word: famed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first from a career as a speed-champion stenographer to a career as one of the most successful songwriters in Tin Pan Alley history. He ran on to fortune and a Broadway winner's fame as a nightclub proprietor and as one of the greatest showmen of his time. As a columnist (at roughly $52,000 a year), he is currently showing impressive stamina and speed in a fiercely competitive branch of journalism. After only nine months of newspaper distribution, Columnist Billy Rose's "Pitching Horseshoes" has landed in some 145 papers with an estimated 18 million (Billy...
...Zorina in a number of first-rate ballet offerings; the Ritz Brothers running hot and cold through a dozen harebrained interludes; and Phil Baker with accordion and gags. There is little doubt who makes the ranking bid to steal the show: Bergen and McCarthy at their first-flush-of-fame best sparring with Baker and more delightfully with Bobby Clark. Even the W. C. Fields routine with McCarthy pales next to Clark's classic buffoonery. Each wheeze is on hand--"you fugitive from a picket fence," "you animated clothespin," "you talking totem pole"--but crisp as toast before that long...
Ferdy (The Bull) Nadherny of gridiron and basketball fame heads a list of long ball hitters among the Eli yearlings. In commenting on Crimson prospects, Coach Mee Berg said yesterday, "We got lots of men on base but we have trouble getting them in." Berg plans to throw his ace lefthander John Hansen into the fray tomorrow, while standing pat on the rest of the lineup...
Come and dance the Royal Minuet, Such a dainty thing you're bound to get. It's created for a gracious name, A sweet princess of Royal fame...
...years the Charlotte, N. C. News (circ. 62,000) has covered the Carolinas with its good intentions, exposing and opposing brutality to Negroes and chain gangs, working for better housing. Its campaigns brought it a measure of fame, but no great fortune. Since January, when a well-heeled syndicate of business tycoons took over, Carolinians have wondered whether the News's new owners would turn out to be too fat to fight...