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Word: roarke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sweep of the Wimbledon Singles titles, California's Louise Brough needed every trick in the book to outlast California's Beverly Baker Fleitz 7-5, 8-6. A Wimbledon winner in 1948, '49, and '50, Tennis Stylist Brough is now halfway to Helen Wills Moody Roark's Wimbledon record of eight championships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Road to the Pros | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

...ROARK BRADFORD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

Died. Clyde Roark Hoey, 76, Democratic U.S. Senator from North Carolina since 1945, one-term (1937-41) governor of North Carolina; of a heart ailment; in his office in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 24, 1954 | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...ROARK BRADFORD Santa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 9, 1953 | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

Wolfe based his story on Novelist Roark Bradford's John Henry, the saga of a Negro Paul Bunyan. In 1936, Wolfe had written incidental music for a play based on John Henry (starring Paul Robeson), but the play flopped. For his first opera, he picked up some of the best of his old music, wrote much that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera in the Idiom | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

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