Word: famed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brown, bosomy Hazel Scott attained fame by changing Bach's stately counter-point into boogie-woogie at Manhattan's Café Society Uptown. Last week Pianist Scott considerably enhanced her fame and earning power by not changing the stately D.A.R...
...most other soldiers, he knew terrible fear. He conquered it with prayer. During the fighting on Guam and Leyte he became famous among the hardbitten men of the 77th Division for his serene recklessness in the face of death. In the nerve-racking weeks of the Okinawa campaign, his fame grew...
...second prize went to beefy George Grosz for his The Survivor, a carefully painted war nightmare. Grosz, whose acid commentaries on World War I, and the social evils which followed in Germany, earned him international fame and the hatred of the Nazis, became a U.S. citizen in 1938, settled down in Douglas Manor, N.Y. to paint heavily larded nudes and Cape Cod sand dunes. When his old fears and disgusts overtake him, he is still a frightening artist...
...much service on the '42 team, last formal squad to take the field for Coach Harlow, and they are being counted on heavily this year. Ken O'Donnell, a flight leader with 34 missions to his credit, is a younger brother of Cleo O'Donnell of '42 Varsity fame, and will see much action at tailback along with Flynn, who is also an Air Force veteran...
Adele Astaire, 46, who twinkletoed to fame with brother Fred in many a musi-comedy (Funny Face, The Band Wagon) before she became Lady Charles Cavendish, returned to Manhattan as effervescent as ever after a decade of country gentility in England and Eire. She announced that Fred had decided to quit hoofing after his next picture ("which pleases me, for I want the boy to live awhile"). She thought that U.S. living would put her in better shape: "It is wonderful to see all the lovely girdles. You know our posteriors have spread quite a bit over there...