Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity, after losing two straight to Army and Columbia, hopes to smash the Tigers today and regain its pre-Army match rating as the nation's number-two fencing team. The good showing made against Columbia, which beat the Crimson, 17 to 10, in a hard fought match in New York, has led Coach Peroy to anticipate a win over Princeton...
...persistent producers trailed Isabel from London to Hollywood, and at last signed her up a few days before rehearsals began. A former secretary, Isabel had been an unknown chorus girl on Broadway. But Guys & Dolls, now a smash hit, has boosted her fast. "She's a find like Mary Martin," said Ernie Martin, "and it all started because I read TIME on a plane from Los Angeles...
...Rosalinda. Antony Tudor's ballroom ballet was a sour grape. But the singing and acting of the Met's 25-year-old Coloratura Patrice Munsel (as Adele) made up for all of that. Slim, pretty Patrice twice stopped the whole show cold. Her first show-stopping smash, delivered (with the help of new lyrics by Howard Dietz) with far-from-bashful bumps and grinds...
...file of the evidence, prepared by the trial's original prosecutor, handsome, 34-year-old Heinz Perscheid, who fled to West Germany last August rather than proceed with the case. Perscheid's dossier was dynamite. It proved that the Red's judicial masquerade was staged to smash the Liberal Democratic Party, to which the defendants belonged, because it had refused to collaborate with the Socialist Unity (Communist) Party. Perscheid had received special tutelage from Fritz Lange, chairman of East Germany's State Control Commission. Perscheid quoted Lange as telling him: "The prosecution and court...
...virtues last week. They included a poised defense that turned aside with glove or shoulder most of Barone's punches, a flickering left jab which, though it packed no knockout drops, did a thorough job of dulling his opponent's reflexes, and a stout right smash that put Barone away in round eleven. At 29, Ezzard Charles had a polished boxing style that was not Joe Louis', but was still mighty effective in its own way. It might be a long time before the fans saw another Louis; meanwhile, it looked as though it would take more...