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The Metropolitan Opera faced up to losing its greatest soprano. Nearing the end of a brilliant season, after a ten-year absence, Kirsten Flagstad at 55 felt that the strain of rehearsals and acting was just too much. After a London performance next fall of Purcell's Dido and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 19, 1951 | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

First Period--Scoring: Kittredge (H) (Preston, Marshall), 3:02; Purcell (N) (unassisted), 4:14; Smith (N) (Madden, DeVarennes), 16:30; Byrne (N) (unassisted), 18:08; Holden (N) (Rochon, Campion), 19:29. Penalties: none. Saves: Corning, 5; Picard, 6.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Basketball, Hockey Teams Lose to Columbia, Northeastern | 2/7/1951 | See Source »

The Huskies had only 17 shots at Corning, but they made the best of their opportunities. Defenseman Buddy Purcell sank the first one for the Huskies unassisted a little over a minute after Harvard's goal. He faked one defenseman out of position, and lifted it over Corning's stick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Basketball, Hockey Teams Lose to Columbia, Northeastern | 2/7/1951 | See Source »

Like many another well-heeled man about town, Purcell had also gotten into show business; he had established a firm called Star Management Co. and was managing a string of nightclub singers. He helped promote one of them, a buxom and glad-eyed lass named Terri Stevens, by getting her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Smoke & Mire | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

The cops were not abashed. Headquarters immediately leaked a rumor intended to intimidate the council-that 2,000 bluecoats would quit en masse if the law was passed. The firemen-at least on the surface-struck the same defiant pose. The association not only gave Purcell a vote of confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Smoke & Mire | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

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