Word: rowes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...singing during the chorus-girl numbers at Manhattan's Copacabana. But his real break came when Eddie Cantor spotted him three summers later at Grossinger's and took him on a vaudeville tour. Since then, Fisher's easygoing voice has made 14 hit records in a row-his I'm Walking Behind You is this week's No. 1 bestseller-and his four radio and TV shows keep him well-centered in the public...
...Louis, the hapless baseball Browns set an unenviable major-league mark: 20 losses in a row in their home park, breaking the record set by the Boston Red Sox in 1906. Said Browns Owner Bill Veeck, who has been trying to move the Browns' franchise out of St. Louis: "Frankly, I don't know whether the Browns are coming or going...
Patrons could see him. sitting in the front row, a small man who has a passing resemblance to Peter Lorre, listening attentively to the music but with one ear cocked to audience response. For about two hours, the comedy went on, its performers (from the Punch Opera company) obviously enjoying their slightly bawdy roles. The score, with its occasional tang of dissonance and its shifting harmonies, sounded like slightly clouded Prokofiev, contained some lively ensemble passages and as large a share of waltzes as Rosenkavalier. If few listeners were carried away, it may have been because the plot...
...Boston, the New York Yankees won a baseball game after losing nine in a row, their longest losing streak since 1945. Despite the losing streak, the Yankees still led the American League early this week by 5½ games...
Chemical Hoe. A new chemical spray called Alanap (N -I naphthyl phthalamic acid) that kills weeds and crabgrass before they emerge from the soil, but spares farm crops and grass, was announced by U.S. Rubber Co. One to three pounds an acre is sufficient to control weeds among row crops for three to eight weeks. Price: about...