Word: famed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Author. The most inward of men and fastidious of playwrights, tall, fiftyish George Kelly oddly enough first won fame as a vaudeville actor. Totally lacking in ambition to write, he got started by writing his own vaudeville material...
Hard hit by a desire to view the wilderness, Don "Hairless Joe" Royce and Max "Lonesome Polecat" Richards journeyed to Wellesley and thence to the Totem Pole for a little weekend excitement. And then we have the life and love of Bill Shuey of the stoned fame, and his crushing roommate H. P. Mitchell, late of UCLA. Recent cowardly attacks upon our sovereign state by H. B. Wood under the watchful eye of a prominent naval officer--better known as "the protector"--have caused us here to remark that the Golden State waits only for Florida to secede to join...
Sergeant Sabu ("Elephant Boy") Dastagir, 22-year-old Indian who gained fame & fortune in peacetime films riding on the back of an elephant, was awarded the D.F.C. for riding a U.S. bomber as a tail gunner in an attack on a Japanese convoy off Borneo...
...addition, the Crimson will have southpaw Johnny Knowles, up from the B-team, Ronnie Wright, of intramural softball fame, and a couple of newcomers, Bill O'Neil and Bill Johnson. "If one or more of these boys comes through," says Stahl, "Wallace shouldn't have to carry as heavy a pitching burden as he did last summer...
...painters, fame comes easily and early, with the rolling drums of ballyhoo. This week Manhattan is having a look at a one-man show by Julian Levi, who has built himself a reputation the slow, hard, un-pressagented way. A slight, soft-spoken man with a fierce walrus moustache, Southpaw Painter Levi weathered the depression as a WPArtist, has since sold his work to 15 ranking U.S. museums. His quiet, low-keyed canvases now bring from...