Word: melchior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oliver-Dabney History and Literature prize, given to the "most promising junior' in the department, went to Jeanne Melchior '50. The award, which is to be spent within a year on books, is decided on the basis of marks, general examinations, and tutorial...
...Easter bunny, Father Time and Rosie O'Grady. He has made entrances by dog sled, donkey, horse chariot, kiddie car and parachute. He often coaxes the unexpected out of his guest stars: Gracie Fields sang for him in a bathing suit, and the Metropolitan's Tenor Lauritz Melchior in blackface...
General Manager Edward Johnson of the Metropolitan Opera, pressed by Atlanta reporters to name his successor after he retires next year, obliged with a list that included Lawrence Tibbett, Lauritz Melchior and Billy Rose, who loves to give widely syndicated free advice...
After seven exciting weeks of hunting big game in East Africa (bag thus far: five lions, 38 assorted wild critters), beefy Tenor Lauritz Melchior had a narrow squeak. The Metropolitan's veteran dragonslayer fired as a charging Cape buffalo came at him, fired again & again & again, finally dropped the one-ton beast less than ten feet away...
...Lauritz Melchior, off for some big-game hunting in East Africa, hoped that he could find "a live dragon for Siegfried . . . I've killed him so many times that I need...