Word: pourer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latest protégé-playmate is little, dark-haired Don Perone, former New England featherweight champ, who has lived in Iturbi's Beverly Hills mansion for six months. Iturbi employs him as coffee-pourer and sparring partner, and rewards him with singing lessons. Although Perone was wounded at Salerno by a bayonet that pierced his stomach, Amateur Boxer Iturbi has persuaded Perone to return to the ring. Perone will make the great sacrifice next month against a local fighter selected by Iturbi. He would much rather sing...
Last week 24-year-old Charles Thomas, of Detroit, Mich., onetime metal pourer and molder at Ford, now a captain, became the first living Negro to get the Distinguished Service Cross in World War II. The only other Negro to get the D.S.C. in this war: Private George Watson, who gave his life helping men to safety from a sinking boat off New Guinea two years...
Tall, handsome, fiftyish, with a weakness for dizzy hats, Hedda is rated less inaccurate than most of the gossips, in a notoriously inaccurate field. An impetuous pourer-out, she seldom goes through a show without muffing words, mixing up names. Typical blunder last week was an item praising Jack Dempsey, which she gaffed into a plug for Jack Benny. Leaving the studio, she usually remarks, "Boy, I sure kicked that...