Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia Phillies wrangled with an insurance company over whether First Baseman Eddie Waitkus ought to get injury compensation for the bullet wound he got from a demented bobby-soxer last June. The ball club argued that Eddie was only doing "his proper duty in public relations" when he went to the girl's hotel room in the belief that she was from his home town and needed help...
Novelist-Playwright Anita Loos was making the most of a good thing. Having cleaned up over $1,500,000 on Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as a magazine sketch (1924), a first novel (1925), a play (1926) and a movie (1928), she had collaborated with Playwright Joseph Fields to turn it into a musicomedy. As rehearsals began in Manhattan, a photographer recorded an unrehearsed resemblance between Author Loos and the 1949 version of her heroine, up & coming Comedienne Carol (Lend an Ear) Channing...
...First-nighters at the San Francisco Opera Company's flossy opening night blinked at an unprecedented sight: Jimmy ("Schnozzola") Durante making his debut in an opera audience. As Manon Lescaut wore on, Durante complained to a companion: "I can't understand a thing they're saying-is the acoustics bad in here?" During intermission, Durante reported later, he rubbed elbows with socialites. "I had to rub elbows," he explained. "Nobody would shake hands with...
...Stand on Freedom." Last week, when it appeared that college authorities would accept the Armstrong gift, tiny Jefferson became big news for the first time since Lafayette. The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith denounced the gift as "probably the most vicious use of wealth that our generation has seen." The Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League petitioned Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson to remove the school from the list of preparatory schools whose curriculums are acceptable to West Point...
...week came the brassy Dixieland chatter of Muskrat Ramble, swung by "The Roman New Orleans Band." Teen-age Italian hepcats, backed by placards of "Welcome Louie," were beating out a solid welcome for American Jazz Potentate Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong and his All-Stars.* On the last lap of his first grand European tour since 1935, Satchmo had found solid welcomes and solid houses wherever he landed. In Stockholm, 40,000 fans welcomed him at the airport; thousands waited in line all night to get tickets for his concert. Stockholm's Aftonbladet printed a special eight-page jazz extra complete...