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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Youngsters may be puzzled by Ruth Etting's unsubtle singing of the old songs she made famous (Ten Cents a Dance, Love Me or Leave Me, Shine On, Harvest Moon). Her straightforward style is a far cry from the slick and silken whisperings of the younger generation's favorite song pluggers. But to their parents and their uncles and their aunts, Ruth Etting is still an item, as she proved in a comeback last March...
With her, Sterne moved into a 48-room castle in the Sabine hills south of Rome. He was already famous both as a painter and as a sculptor, sometimes made $5,000 for a few weeks' work. The King of Italy opened Sterne's first one-man show in Rome. After Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art gave him a well-publicized exhibition in 1933, Sterne spent more & more time in the U.S. He painted a series of murals for the Department of Justice building in Washington, found himself represented in 16 U.S. museums, including Manhattan...
This week, at 56, Marc Connelly took on a new job: associate professor of playwriting in Yale's graduate School of Fine Arts, succeeding 68-year-old Walter Prichard Eaton. Connelly, who never went to college himself, will teach "Drama 47," a "professional" course started and made famous (at Harvard, then at Yale) by the late Professor George P. Baker. He will help 15 students dissect each others' plays; Yale will produce the best ones...
...built London's largest department store; of pneumonia; in London. Retiring at 46 after piling up a fortune with Chicago's Marshall Field & Co., Selfridge took a trip to London, was shocked by staid British selling methods, opened the store on Oxford Street that grew rich and famous through high-pressure advertising...
Professor, Pound has always been a strong man and for years could run a five minute mile. When he lived in Belmont, he walked six miles a day to Cambridge, and he became famous among his neighbors for going coatless in subzero weather...