Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neighbors remember Clifford as a shy boy with "a mass of golden ringlets," who sold Saturday Evening Posts and sang in the Episcopal choir. He was never any trouble. Like most good little boys, he suffered under the inevitable epithet of "sissy." At St. Louis' Washington University he played juvenile leads in college shows. His casting in these parts always caused lively competition from girls who wanted to play opposite him. Then, as now, he was 6 ft. 2 in., very symmetrical, with rippling, taffy-colored hair. He played tennis and sang baritone in the glee club. Toward...
...soon as the operation was over, Oscar Ivanissevich, Perón's surgeon, who is also his new Education Minister and until recently was his Ambassador in the U.S., held a press conference to give a play-by-play. Said he: "The wife of the First Magistrate remained in the operating room, dressed in a white nurse's costume. ... She passed all this time praying to God for the success of the operation. The President preserved his serenity. . . . Some minutes after I had begun the operation, he was heard to say: 'What a pity! My poor dear...
Tennist Bill Tilden turned dramatist with a play about a mental-case mother, a kidnaped child and a brother-sister love affair. Called New Shoes, it opened in Los Angeles. The Times pronounced it "malodorous, but. . . delicate enough and . . . well written...
Stravinsky calls the work an "opera-oratorio," but as presented yesterday, without scenery or action, it seems to fit more closely into the latter category. It tells the Oedipus story in an abbreviated form, with the chorus playing about the same part that it does in the play and each of the male singers taking several roles. Although the text is in Latin, a speaker breaks in with details of the plot in English a few times during the performance...
With little more than a minute to play, Dunster's center Ted Nelson tapped the ball through the net after a muffed foul shot to put the Puritans within one point of the leaders, but Dunster's sharpshooters hit again, clinching the tilt...