Word: famed
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...Americans were inextricably connected with every clutch hit, every stolen base, every acrobatic catch in Robinson's career. Not just Robinson but an entire race was coming to the plate--and he knew it. He stood up to the pressure with extraordinary grace and performed at a Hall of Fame level. His is surely one of the most remarkable and inspiring accomplishments in sports history, or just plain history...
Given the subsequent fame that many of the artists enjoyed, one is apt to suppose that their emigre life (especially in America) was secure, but actually it depended on stipends, teaching jobs and ad hoc support arranged by dealers--many of them emigres themselves, like Curt Valentin--and by a few museum officials, notably Alfred Barr Jr. of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Visas, stamps and bureaucratic routines took on a disproportionate significance, as they always do for the marginal. After the U.S. entered the war in 1941, the foreignness of some artists counted against them even more...
...blues diva; from complications of diabetes; in New York City. During the early rock-'n'-roll era, white performers found success by making cover versions of such hits of hers as 1954's Teedlee Dee, but Baker got belated revenge when she was inducted into rock's Hall of Fame...
KEEP ON TRUCKIN' Vintage vehicles at Chattanooga's International Towing & Recovery Hall of Fame and Museum remind us that in America's love affair with the auto, the humble tow truck has been the car's faithful attendant...
Scrappy second baseman Nellie Fox, who died in 1975, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee last week. While stories on Fox referred to his .288 lifetime batting average, his 1959 American League MVP award and his record for most consecutive games at second base (798), no mention was made of his abduction by aliens. It happened in 1959, when a helicopter filled with Martians landed at Chicago's Comiskey Park and captured both Fox and his equally diminutive double-play partner, Luis Aparicio. The stunt was dreamed up by White Sox owner Bill Veeck...