Word: foil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Headliner Gene Kelly is still a very find dancer and so amiable a character that most people are willing to sit through his earnest attempts at singing. Donald O'Connor, as Kelly's screen foil, borrows heavily from the Danny Kaye comedy style and comes up with a performance far above his previous efforts...
...Columbia University fencers, the N.C.A.A. team title, over 35 colleges; at New Haven, Conn. Individual titleholders: Navy's Frank Zimolzak, saber; N.Y.U.'s Herman Wallner, epee; and C.C.N.Y.'s Harold Goldsmith, foil...
Captain Eric Sollee placed fifth in the foil to lead the team, winning 24 out of 31 bouts. Harry Ziel fractured his thumb in the saber and had to default half of his bouts, while George McNair, epee man, and Sollee carried...
...bouts, Captain Eric Sollee in the foil had done the best of the Harvard entries, winning 15 and losing four. Teammates George McNair, with a 12 and seven record in the epee, and Harry Zeil, with ten and nine in the sabre were still in the running...
...escort of six Secret Service guards, Margaret Truman arrived in Malibu, Calif, for a two-week beach holiday and some personal appearances. For the radio, she chose the operetta Sari, in which she played the daughter of a gypsy fiddler; for television, she started rehearsing as the friendly foil of Comic Jimmy Durante...