Word: performer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speed was not the main object. Each of 113 driver-passenger teams drew meticulous instructions (as in the game of treasure hunt) for checking in at hard-to-spot "control" and "inquisition" points as well as visiting synagogues along the way. At each control point, teams had to perform some action correctly: waving a handkerchief, snatching a brass ring while driving at 9 m.p.h., buying a stick of candy (but drivers who sneaked a lick en route had it scored against them). At each of five inquisition points, teams had to answer a question. The questions: 1) When...
...Champaign for 19 years, the reference must be to me. The quotation is as follows: "We shall some day accept the thought that it is just as illogical to assume that every boy must be able to read as it is that each one must be able to perform on a violin, that it is no more reasonable to require that each girl shall spell well than it is that each one shall bake a good cherry pie." I have never made this statement or any statement similar to it. Such a reference may be damaging to a teacher...
...Home with Ethel Waters is a fair way of spending the evening out. The latest Broadway star to become a Broadway soloist, Ethel Waters should have unusual qualifications for going it alone. She has a genuine personality, whether warmhearted or rowdy; she can perform as dramatic actress or comedienne; and as a singer, she is a notable album of old favorites-Dinah, Am I Blue, Stormy Weather, Takin' a Chance on Love...
Miss United States, runner-up in the Miss. Universe Contest will perform her first functions as judge tonight when she will meet with 25 semi-finalists in the Miss Radcliffe contest. At this time she will help the CRIMSON executive board narrow the field down to seven finalists; and eventually she will cast a proxy ballot for the girl she believes most beautiful...
...that ventriloquists do not actually throw their voices but create the illusion that they do, Winchell proceeded to amaze his friends. At 14, he also impressed radio's Major Bowes, who gave him $100 first-prize money on his Amateur Hour and a $75-a-week contract to perform in one of his traveling vaudeville units. Winchell was on the road for the next ten years playing theaters and nightclubs...