Word: idolizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Davey, fresh-faced, sandy-haired, and the scholarly looking victim of a retreating hairline, won six straight TV fights last year and became the idol of the fans. Gavilan, who bears the ugly scars of his profession-cauliflower ears, flattened nose, scarred eye tissue-was merely the welterweight champion of the world. Last week in Chicago, for the biggest gate in welterweight history ($275,415), the TV idol met the old pro. The result was as predictable as the 14-5 odds favoring Gavilan...
...brothel. Her luck changed for good when, with mamma, she left Paris for London, became a hairdresser at the Savoy Hotel while mother did dressmaking. Today little Madeleine is Mrs. Robert Henrey, au thor of several well-written books, mother of gifted Child Actor Bobby Henrey (The Fallen Idol). Her saga of life & death in Paris is an endearing, peculiarly feminine mixture of gentleness and Gallic realism, a reminder that life has its quota of sentiment and that it can be conveyed without sentimentality...
Odokara had come to the U.S. in spite of warnings from his father, 97-year-old ceremonial leader of the idol-worshiping Omenani religion. "Christians," scoffed the father, "don't practice what they preach...
Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac is one French painter who seems to care for neither time nor tides. The critics of a generation ago hailed him for what he was -a master of the impressionist landscape, a distinguished follower of his idol, Cezanne. And Segonzac has kept right on painting that way. It was no way to have a flashy vogue; critics and the public were soon preoccupied with a far more revolutionary crew. But over the years, Segonzac's singlemindedness has had its effect. Last week, three of his latest pictures were on view in Paris' Salon...
...very things in his work that have set the conventional-minded to spluttering with outrage have made Cummings a writ ers' writer and a particular idol of the young. A few years ago, when Cummings went to Bennington College in Vermont to give a reading, the entire audience of girls rose as he mounted the platform and chanted in unison one of his poems...