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Word: brenda (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the show hit the road in Philadelphia, with a cast that includes onetime New York City Opera Stars Brenda Lewis (as Rosalinda) and Virginia MacWatters (Adele). On opening night, a fuse blew out in the orchestra pit and delayed the show for 15 minutes. But near-capacity audiences had a rollicking good time all week. Said one surprised young lady: "I like it even better than South Pacific." Their 30-week tour will take the Met auxiliaries into more than 30 cities for some 200 performances. Weekly cost of the show: $30,000. Estimated profit? Says Bing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Met's Road Show | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

Operations to separate joined twins are rarely successful. A recent attempt, on Canadian Brenda and Beverley Townsend last May (TIME, May 22), ended in death for both babies when surgeons found that a portion of the heart of each extended into the chest cavity of her sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Son & Nephew | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

Victoria Kelly was learning to look her five-year-old best for photographers, with the expert coaching of her mother, Lens Veteran Brenda Frazier Kelly, 29, glamor queen of cafe society a decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Women at Work | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

When the wreckage had cooled, firemen climbed in to bring out seven bodies­five women, two infants. One of the women was heroic Frankie Housley. She was found lying in the aisle with the body of four-month-old Brenda Joyce Smith in her arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Take Your Time | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

...Angeles jury listened to British Ballerina Brenda Julier's charges that Cinemactor Sabu ("Elephant Boy") Dastagir, 26, was the father of her two-year-old daughter, heard the defense sum up: "Sabu is not an ordinary movie star, not an ordinary person. He's a very lovable boy [but] his interest in life is animals." The jury voted 9 to 3 to clear Sabu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Strenuous Life | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

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