Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stage was set for a real-life version of the scene in which the Unknown Young Musician gets his Big Break, triumphs, and rockets to international fame. But the hero balked...
...widespread became his fame after his death that a move was started to have him canonized in Rome. And when Hawaii was asked to contribute statues of two of its heroes to the Capitol's Statuary Hall in Washington, he and the 19th century Hawaiian King Kamehameha were the nearly unanimous choices. A statue of Kamehameha presented no problem: one is already standing before the state judicial building; all the legislature needed to do was order up a replica...
...these experiments good enough for a jury to make a decision which can strike this defendant from the face of the earth?" thundered Bailey. The jury's answer was a blow to the criminal counselor, who gained fame only last year by winning acquittals for Dr. Sam Sheppard and Coppolino and liked to brag about having an impressive string of 19 victories in homicide cases. So far this year, with the conviction of the Boston Strangler, he has a string of two well advertised losses. Though Bailey vowed to appeal the verdict, a stunned Coppolino was led from...
Unfortunately, there was not always a lot for Nancy Sinatra to laugh about; during the first 25 years of her life, Laughing Face was as close as she ever came to fame. Now, however, with four hit records and two starring movie roles to her credit, she can claim to have made it on her own. Nancy, in fact, is lately being given the kind of celebrity treatment usually accorded her father. In Viet Nam, where she recently toured, 37 outfits generously named her their No. 1 pinup girl. She is currently negotiating a contract with the Pontiac people...
...said, is that music should be seen and not heard. The recital by Easley Blackwood Monday night was one of the department's rare gestures of support to performing music. Composer-pianist Blackwood performed works by Schoenberg, Charles Ives, himself, and Harvard's own John Perkins (of Music 154 fame...