Word: spotlights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Palm Fronds & Spotlight. Apollo patrons saw Ella for the first time 17 years ago. Billed as a dancer in the amateur show, she looked shyly down at her spindly legs, stammered out that she had changed her mind, would like to sing instead. The audience guffawed. But by the time 15-year-old Ella had slid smoothly into the second chorus of Judy they were shouting encouragement. Three encores later, she walked off the stage with the $25 first prize. No other contestant had come even close...
Lilitenthal, whose service as AEC chairman brought him into the spotlight of Congressional investigations twice during his term, also served as director of the Tennessee Valley Authority for 12 years before...
...perjury case dragged through its third month in San Francisco's federal court, Harry Renton Bridges had begun to seem the forgotten man at his own trial. The spotlight had wavered for weeks between the Government's backslid-Red witnesses and Defense Attorney Vincent Hallinan, whose apoplectic conduct had brought him a six-month sentence (which was deferred) for contempt of court. But last week Harry Bridges finally had the full blaze of the limelight all to himself...
Over 150 men and asserted handfuls of Radcliffe students will take the spotlight for Radcliffe's March 10 performance of "Drumbeats and Song...
...Madison Square Garden had watched a kaleidoscopic spectacle: a multitude of lithe young men in multicolored jerseys whirling through the early events of indoor track's classic Millrose Games. But at 10 p.m. the Garden lights dimmed. The jogging regiments of runners gathered quietly in the infield. A spotlight was turned on a huge U.S. flag. The band brassily essayed The Star-Spangled Banner and a fight-night baritone swelled his chest and shamelessly drowned...