Word: renowned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Globetrotters that came bursting onto the court to the tune of "Sweet Georgia Brown" were the same red, white and blue uniforms which have gained them world-wide renown, as well as capacity crowds wherever they go, but as far as this crowd was concerned, the Globetrotters could have stayed in New York. Gone from the lineup was the showman Goose Tatum; gone from the floor was the remarkable dribbler Leon Hilliard--in short, the Globetrotters were just a basketball team, and not a show company...
...chores in his own screen biography, ebony Singer Nat "King" Cole, a trifle breathless from crooning a dozen of his hits, e.g., Nature Boy, Too Young, told how he felt as the hero of the vanguard film in Hollywood's projected series of movies about living musicians of renown. Asked if he had been thrown by any of his own lines, Cole shrugged and husked...
...others for racist propaganda. Chiefly because he held the editorship of a German psychoanalytic journal during the Nazi regime (his co-editor at one time was a relative of Hermann Göring), Jung has sometimes been accused of Nazi sympathies. Jung's position: as a foreigner of renown, he merely took the job to safeguard what he could of German psychiatry...
...warm little war and a cold-blooded assassination carried the six small nations of Central America into 1955 with characteristic gusto. In countless small but deadly revolutions, from the days of the smoothbore musket through the time of the machine-gunning fighter plane, they have earned their unhappy renown as a sort of American Balkans-plus-volcanoes. Last week the area was smoking in much the way it did during the filibuster-filled past...
...veteran of 32 years' service with the Air Force, postwar commanding general of U.S. Air Forces in Europe; of a heart attack; in Arcadia, Calif. Trainer of hundreds of military pilots (among his pupils: Generals Nathan F. Twining, Hoyt Vandenberg, Curtis E. LeMay), four-star Uncle Joe won renown as one of World War II's great tactical airmen; devised "Operation Strangle," which severed Nazi rail transport to central Italy in preparation for the push on Rome...