Word: pinza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dancing Goats. In the past three years Las Vegas has become such a glittering entertainment center that Variety now finds it necessary to keep a full-time correspondent in residence. On any night, the Strip offers the tourist such big names as Danny Kaye, Lauritz Melchior, Betty Hutton, Ezio Pinza, Milton Berle and the Jose Greco Dancers. The stars, of course, are just an added attraction, gold-horned Judas goats who lure the herds of tourists to the gaming tables. "We're just the highest-paid shills in history," says Tallulah Bankhead. "Why do we do it? Dahling...
...advice to youngsters (first rule: "Don't whistle in the dressing room"), Shirley Booth and Basil Rathbone in a wake for the late Empire Theater, and Rosalind Russell with songs from Wonderful Town. This week's guest list: Rodgers & Hammerstein, Elliott Nugent, Yul Brynner, Ezio Pinza, Alfred Drake and Cab Galloway...
Citation: "Imaginative, resourceful, vehement, volcanic. A doctor to the drama, he cuts out whole scenes, resets parts, injects vitality, and makes things move. He pushed Pinza about, put Mary Martin in a shower, kept Ethel Merman tough, and who but Logan could bring it about that 'Bloody Mary Is the Girl I Love'? A disciple of the classic dramatists, he makes his audience see and feel what human nature...
Died. Fred Darling, 69, one of Britain's greatest racehorse trainers, whose Beckhampton stables produced eight Epsom Derby winners, including this year's Pinza (TIME, June 15); of a lung hemorrhage; in Beckhampton, England...
Over the roller-coaster mile-and-a-half turf of Epsom Downs, Jockey Richards and Pinza justified their bettors' faith. At the last turn, famed Tattenham Corner, Richards saved ground by snugging close along the curving rail. In the stretch. where Richards' other horses have been tiring for a generation, Pinza proved to be a stayer. At the finish, Richards had his first Derby winner, by four lengths. Second in the field of 27: Queen Elizabeth's Aureole...