Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BRIGID BAZLEN, who first won fame at 14 as the lightly tripping, Peabody-awarded Blue Fairy of a Chicago kiddies' TV program, is now 17 and has come quite a distance from the imitation mushrooms of the Loop's Blue Forest. Black-haired and hazel-eyed, Brigid went to Spain last summer and, without veils, took the role of Salome in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's King of Kings (ready for October release). With a creditable performance in The Honeymoon Machine, released last week, she has moved on to Paducah, Ky.. to play a tough-talking frontier...
...profoundly altered the performance and consumption of music that it was possible for the most popular singer of the day-Elvis Presley-to build a recording-studio career while scarcely ever opening his mouth in public. To commemorate Edison's recent election to the Hall of Fame, the Edison Foundation has issued on one LP a sampling of some of Edison's earliest recordings. They should convince any listener that the "sound-writer" was well worth the cost of rock 'n' roll...
...wonder is that this ordinarily mild-mannered, suburbia-chained father, who even admits that his swimming pool is "my status symbol," is able to punch so hard. Borne to fame in World War II on the shoulders of his famed G.I. cartoon characters, Willie and Joe, Mauldin seemed dashed and aimless once the smoke of war had cleared away. "My life has been backwards," he says. "Big success, retirement, and now I'm making an honest living." Starting a brand-new career three years ago at the Post-Dispatch, he has risen to the top of his profession, using...
...will be held tomorrow at the union, 8:30 p.m. "The oriental Teahouse" has been chosen as the theme will Chinese lanterns, posters, and geisha girls serving refreshments. Music will be provided by George Graham and his Orchestra will intermission entertainment by Arma Schefrin, of Widener Quadrangle song-fest fame...
Since then, Bashir has become a victim of his own fame. Assaulted by the press and the curious, he has been unable to make his rounds, which usually netted him $4 a day. Now broke, he is living off friends. He was forced reluctantly into his first pair of shoes. His family and neighbors were worried: "Will they let him come back to Pakistan?" "Will he bring back a mem-sahib [white wife]?" What was worse, the bewildered Bashir heard nothing from anyone in the U.S. about his trip. The reasons: the Digest backed out of sponsoring him; People...