Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Since the Lisbon crash, Jane has spent most of her time in & out of hospitals, undergone 25 operations. But she never let her big, throaty voice get out of form. She went back on the European U.S.O. circuit for a 30,000-mile trek while still in a cast, plugged away at sporadic nightclub and radio dates, first from a wheelchair, then on crutches...
These days he makes his winter headquarters in Cambridge, travels a regular winter circuit of colleges, lecturing (fee: $200-$300) and reading his poems (in a voice Padraic Colum once likened to the barking of an eagle), spends a couple of months in Florida where he has a small house in Coral Gables, summers at his Vermont farm, which he shares with the Morrison family: Harvard Lecturer (and poet) Theodore Morrison* and his wife Kathleen. Both at Cambridge and Ripton, "K," serves as a sort of combined secretary, manager and friend, handles Frost's correspondence, types his poems, fends...
...other games yesterday, which closed out action in both leagues for the season, the American League champion New York Yankees lost to the Boston Red Sox, 7-3. Detroit, the junior circuit runner-up, was shaded by the Cleveland Indians...
...Chicago nightclub circuit of the 1930s knew Lou Reynolds as a handsome glib master of ceremonies who used to wow the customers with his own parody of My Blue Heaven. Lou Reynolds' real name was Louis Sebille, and that was the name he used during World War II when he flew 68 combat missions as a Marauder pilot, wound up with major's leaves and a chest full of medals...
...Manhattan's expensive Copacabana, even though his talents were hidden behind a bevy of beautiful arm-waving chorus girls. Two years ago, he won an Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts contest. Last fall, Eddie Cantor heard Fisher singing at a summer resort on the Catskill borsch circuit and signed him to tour the country with his own show. But each time, the big chance seemed to fizzle out, and Fisher went back to dates in small clubs and theaters, cutting an occasional record for RCA Victor's second-string Bluebird label...