Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scared and skinny in a $10 coat, I showed up for my first modeling job for Vogue nine years ago, and shared a dressing room with Lisa Fonssagrives [TIME, Sept...
...February 1928 the little nine-piece band had made a big hit with dance fans, and was all set to make an even bigger one. For their first appearance on a vaudeville bill in Chicago's Palace Theater, they had a wow comic-hat routine to go with I Wish I Was In Peoria and a noisy harness gag for Thanks for the Buggy Ride. But they put their new act on only once. Stormed the theater manager: "For the $4,000 a week we're paying you, we can get a good comedian for every...
...Paul Whiteman's records, to get their own band into the big time. It had been 20 years since the band began its first season at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel; last week, when they began their 20th straight season at the Roosevelt, eight of the original nine members of the Royal Canadians were still there. And finally it was just 15 years since Guy had started making a fortune for Decca and himself by selling close to 50 million copies (Guy's estimate) of some 800 sides...
...record-minded, Rizzuto equaled a series mark by getting no fielding chances at shortstop during a nine inning game. Ralph Branca was the second successive Brooklyn pitcher to strike out three times. Preacher Roe did it Thursday...
...yearbook staff must pile up 500 subscriptions before plans for the Book can be continued. Due to the $390 debt incurred by last year's yearbook, "the Forty and Nine," the Dean's Office will not approve yearbook plans until a sufficient financial backlog is assured...