Word: virtuoso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Virtuoso. In San Pedro, Calif., police hunted the fly fisherman who had made a cast into L. M. White's motel room and flicked out his wallet...
...Virtuoso. In Camden, N.J., the detective assigned to the Elizabeth Blackshire larceny case complained that she had picked his pockets as he questioned her at the police station...
...Next 20 Years. In his new picture, Peck contends manfully with a role which only a virtuoso might have saved. But there is no good reason why either Peck or his admirers need worry about his future. For the camera's purposes, his lean, bony face is the sort that is practically indestructible. For the next 20 years, he is not likely to look enough older to damage him as a leading man. And his place in movies is already high, secure and respectably unique...
...pinball habits and morals. The old master of the rolling sphere stood calm and upright by his machine, priming with but a gentle nudge at an opportune moment, playing a cautious, skillful, and fairly conservative game. In contrast to the suave, sure fingered pre-war man, the postwar pinball virtuoso crouches hungrily over his mechanical Christmas tree hammering it viciously and helping out with body English. Others stand aloofly at a distance so as better to see the lights flash...
Married. Yehudi Menuhin, 31, violin virtuoso; and British Ballerina Diana Gould, 33, daughter of a concert pianist, stepdaughter of a British admiral; he for the second time, she for the first; 17 days after his first divorced him; in London...