Word: finalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fischelis captured a second prize last year with an excerpt from Thomas Wolfe's You Can't Go Home Again, the "Letter to Foxhall Edwards." Bingham was a finalist in the 1947 contest...
Only two have thus far entered the unlimited lists, while a field of five, a including Hugh Smith, finalist in last year's contest, will take a creak a 165-pound honors...
Gaining the remaining finalist berths were Witt Smith of Winthrop and John Easton of Dunster in the 145-pound class, Carl Stork of Leverett and Winthrop's Len Cummings in the 165's, and Fred Donahue of Lowell and Henry Payson of Leverett, 175-pounders. Ken Middendorf of Eliot will tackle Leverett's Irv Chilcott in the heavyweight match...
After Dick Hawkins won by a fall in 3:32 over Dave Saltus in the semi-finals of the 165 pound class, Hawkins and Don Albion, the other finalist, both being from Kirkland and with true House loyalty not able to get inspired over the contest, decided the final by the flip of a coin, which Albion...
...also had, among its vivacious, fun-loving cast, two of the most personable and best-equipped fledgling divas that U.S. opera has turned up this season. One, Brooklyn-born Dorothy Sarnoff (no relation to RCA's President David Sarnoff), got her first break as a finalist in last year's Metropolitan Opera auditions of the air. As Rosalinda, she showed that she is ready for bigger things than operetta. The other, blue-eyed Philadelphia-born Virginia MacWatters, a protégé of famed Soprano Lotte Lehmann, tossed off her tricky coloratura arias with the ease and precision...