Word: famed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rode tiptoed to fame (and royal favor) as a ballet dancer. One night, when he was over 60, big-nosed, silken-bearded King Leopold II saw Cléo dance at the opera in Paris. He held up the show for half an hour while he talked to her in the lobby. Next day the town was buzzing...
Julia's regional fame began to spread when jazz expert Dave Dexter Jr., like Julia a native of Kansas City, put two of her songs in a Capitol Records album called History of Jazz. Disc jockeys picked Julia's record out of the album and played it more than the others, so Capitol lured Julia to Hollywood to record twelve more sides. She took her drummer, Baby Lovett, along, and on the way out they wrote a suggestive tune called Gotta Gimme Watcha Got, which sold out immediately. Some jazz critics boldly compared 44-year-old Julia...
Died. Edward J. Reilly, 64, flamboyant, old-style criminal lawyer, who in the Roaring Twenties won fame of a sort as the Great Mouthpiece for mobsters and gun molls, was said to have handled nearly 2,000 murder cases, chief defense counsel at the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the murder of the Lindbergh baby; of cerebral thrombosis; in Brooklyn...
Some new schools bid for fame and favor by adding a progressive wrinkle to Education's old face. But New Hampshire's three-month-old Cardigan Mountain School boldly reached back for ideas almost old enough to be new again...
Died. Eugene ("Gene") Talmadge, 62, governor-elect of Georgia, who during three previous terms as governor won fame of a sort as the rabble-rousing apostle of "white supremacy"; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Atlanta (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...