Word: grande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Eleo Sears is the Grand Old Girl of squash, she can still tire out the average youngster. One morning last week, when she had no match scheduled, she played nine straight games with hard-hitting, 20-year-old Hope Knowles (who later won the tournament). Five games is enough to wind most women squash players, but Eleo said she was not even warmed...
Next night through the false front of tall white columns erected to make Atlanta's Grand Theatre look like Tara (the O'Hara plantation in Gone With the Wind) streamed a privileged 2,031 who were going to see the picture whose title Hollywood had been abbreviating for three years as G With the W. They were conscious of participating in a national event, of seeing a picture it had taken three yea~s to make from a novel it had taken seven years to write. They knew it had taken two years and something akin to genius...
Died. Carl Edgar Mapes, 64, able, hardworking, non-orating, longtime Republican member of the U. S. House of Representatives; of a heart attack; in New Orleans. His last words: "I wish I were home [Grand Rapids, Mich...
This season, grand opera at Manhattan's Metropolitan opened with a slightly fussier fuss than usual. Last week, however, the Met got in the groove-a few new voices and a new red carpet, but the same old scenery, same old gilded box holders, and opera's perennial bright angel, NBC, occupying Grand Tier Box 44 for the Saturday matinee, Boris Godunoff...
...dipping into a $20,000 emergency pot guaranteed by Boston philanthropists. To make the Service selfsupporting, it needs a minimum of 4,000 participants. Last week when the plan was announced, members of Boston clubs and unions eagerly called for details, began to round up recruits for a grand opening, March...