Word: singe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...breaths of Tom Dewey and J. Edgar Hoover both on his neck, Gangster Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, a fugitive for two years, chose as the lesser of two evils to give himself up to the FBI chief. Month ago he slouched into Federal court. Graduate of the Connecticut Reformatory, Sing Sing, ex-loft burglar, racketeer, gorilla chief, suspected of many a murder, Lepke was there to stand trial on the first of ten indictments for smuggling dope...
...born in Budapest 27 years ago and her name was Ilona Hajmassy (pronounced High-massy). At 14, Ilona was a seamstress in a sweatshop, with a will to sing. So Seamstress Hajmassy applied at a Budapest opera house. When its manager asked her what she could do, she told him: "Nothing." He put her in the chorus. There she earned 60 pengö ($10.50) a month, got no curtain calls. An M. G. M. executive finally spotted her at the Vienna opera, took her to Hollywood, where for six months she crammed dramatics and English, dieted on cottage cheese...
Amidst these vicissitudes Songsters Massey and Eddy find time to sing often and well. Ilona Massey sings words to The Young Prince and the Young Princess from Rimsky-Korsakoff's Scheherazade, a duet from Carmen with Nelson Eddy. He sings the Volga Boatman's Song in rumbling Russian, other Muscovite songs in English...