Word: idol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...onetime Matinee Idol Osgood Perkins (who died in 1937), Tony scrambled into show business on his own. He finished 24th in a class of 25 at the Browne & Nichols school, later thumbed his way to Hollywood, got a screen test, ended up playing in The Actress with Jean Simmons. In 1954 he took over from John Kerr as the troubled adolescent in Broadway's Tea and Sympathy...
Because of this situation, Boston has long been a paranoiac sports town with a moody, individualistic idol representative of its frustration. The complex extends not only to the Yanks, but to the New York sportswriters, who are envisioned as engaging in a plot to destroy the few postseason consolations which fans in other cities may possess...
...amazing, however, that a national idol can be created on a week's baseball performance, or that a man such as Don Newcombe can be vilified on the strength of seven games...
...members. Catapulted into the key job of general secretary of Britain's biggest union 21 months ago by the sudden successive deaths of two oldtime platform stalwarts, Cousins is now shooting for national union leadership, a role that has not been filled since his old boss and idol, the late Ernest Bevin, built the T.W.U. and went on to become Labor's Foreign Secretary...
Born Cyril Trimnell-Ritchard 58 years ago ("Just say I was born and progressed in the 17th century"), he was educated by convent nuns, packed off to Sydney University to study medicine. After one year he hooked up in musical shows "as a pimply novice" with his boyhood idol, Actress Elliott. In 1935 Madge and Cyril, dubbed by Noel Coward "the singing Lunts," were married "with 3,000 people in the cathedral and 20,000 in the streets." Later in the U.S., Ritchard wasted his directorial skills on a dismal flop called Buy Me Blue Ribbons ("The reviews were simply...