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...Stadttheater in Zurich, worked up a dance act and moved on to Berlin. There she played the subway circuit, usually in Shakespeare. The year was inflation-ridden 1923; her weekly salary was 3 billion marks ($5). After she married Weill and became a star in Germany, U.S. Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson wrote: "She is beautiful in a new way, a way that nobody has vulgarized so far." Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya fled the Nazis in 1933 and went to Paris-after Lenya gambled away much of their savings in Monte Carlo. Two years later they settled...
...Democratic Governor Orval Faubus, who was now helped mightily by Judge Lemley's ruling in a primary campaign for an unprecedented third term (TIME, June 23): "Most gratified . . . The Negro citizens in the community would do well to accept this ruling." Little Rock's School Superintendent Virgil Blossom summed up the sentiments of Little Rock's moderates: "I am very pleased...
...After five years of firing baseballs just about as fast as anyone in the big leagues, "Bullet Bob" has finally figured out how to keep his shots on target. In the second game of last week's doubleheader, Turley stayed zeroed in until the Athletics' veteran reliever, Virgil Trucks, walked home the winning...
During his eleven years in the prize ring, Virgil ("Honeybear") Akins, 30, never earned much more than a reputation as a listless, slow-starting pug. Last week the St. Louis Honeybear suddenly turned into a tiger. To the delight of a home-town audience, he took just 20 seconds of the first round to put New Jersey's Vince Martinez on the deck in their fight for the welterweight championship of the world. Martinez managed to get up, but it was a painful mistake. Akins dropped him eight more times in three more rounds, flattened his nose, and finally...
...Ridden repaid Millionaire Banker Sir Victor's investment with a Derby winner's $56,000 purse. CJ Although they seem stuck in the second division of the American League, the Detroit Tigers finally managed to boost themselves out of baseball's sociological basement. Third Baseman Ossie Virgil, native of the Dominican Republic, was called up from the minors, became the first Negro to play for the Tigers. Sole survivor from the old days of lily-white big-league ball: the Boston Red Sox, who have yet to find room on their roster for a Negro...