Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NURMAN SAHLI Solo, Indonesia...
Nine years away from the West End stage, frolicsome Actress Sarah Churchill buckled down for her mantelshelf solo as the protagonist in a forthcoming production of Sir James Barrie's Peter Pan. At 44, comely Sarah will be one of the oldest of 32 London Peters (among them: Elsa Lanchester, Edna Best) to flit across the Darling's nursery, nonetheless seemed ready to navigate her nearly 600 yds. of flying weekly in the sentimental old wheeze. Sure to be on hand for the opening: her parents. Sir Winston and Lady Churchill, who booked eight seats...
Richard's own brand of hockey contains not so much finesse, as it does sheer drive and, occasionally, just brute force. Canadiens fans still recall fondly the game in the 1945-46 season when the Rocket charged on the Detroit goal in a solo dash. Barring his way was Earl Seibert, a rugged, 225-lb. defenseman. Richard bent low, collided with Seibert, kept his feet, made the goal one-handed, with Seibert still spraddled atop his shoulders...
...when Tenzing paid a visit to his home town in Solo Khumbu, his old neighbors accused him of turning Indian and making scads of money at the expense of Nepal. To protect himself and his elite colleagues, Tenzing set up a Solo Khumbu branch of the Nepal Climbers' Association, a union of Sherpas he heads. In retaliation, the Nepalese Sherpas started a rival union, put a blunt demand before the Nepal government that it outlaw all such foreigners as Tenzing from plying their trade in the country. But the last word would probably come from expedition leaders themselves. Said...
...there was no place to go. If Chiby got a kick out of anything, it was singing. She sang her earliest solo at 3½, when she visited a Sunday-school class one Easter and laced into White Lilies with such gusto that the rest of the kids quit to let her go it alone. To everyone in town, Chiby seemed like just another American kid; people began to call her "Pat." At a "couple of county things" she stopped the show with her unbridled rendition of I Am an American...