Word: rudolph
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...killer and B-Girl Winters, who is hooked by-and sleeping with-a dope peddler (Ricardo Montalban). He grows up on Skid Row, where his playmates are rumblebums and his self-appointed guardians are a germy old barfly (Burl Ives), a good-natured prostitute (Jeanne Cooper), a slugnutty prizefighter (Rudolph Acosta), a junk-jabbing ginmill canary (Ella Fitzgerald) and a legless newsboy (Walter Burke) who packs a pretty little...
...Marks, president of an outfit known as St. Nicholas Music, Inc. In Christmases past, Marks has filled the holiday air with numbers like When Santa Claus Gets Your Letter, I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day and Everyone's a Child at Christmas. His most enduring creation is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, which after twelve seasons and a sale of close to 30 million copies is this year enshrined in no fewer than 25 new recordings by Paul Anka, Ella Fitzgerald, the Chipmunks, Crazy Otto, Guy Lombardo, et al. By Marks's own testimony, his recently released...
...past decade. Says he: "What the hell, I can't control the American way of life. I'm not going to fight it; I'm going to join it." He began joining it when he left college (Colgate) to become a nightclub pianist. The lyrics to Rudolph, based on Robert L. May's children's book of the same name, occurred to him on the street one April day, and within a matter of hours he had added the music. Gene Autry introduced the song at Madison Square Garden and sent...
Running for gold-medal glory, Wilma Rudolph regularly got away to good starts with her arms pumping in classic style, then smoothly shifted gears to a flowing stride that made the rest of the pack seem to be churning on a treadmill. She tied the world record of 11.3 sec. in the 100 meters and won the final by three yds. She set an Olympic record of 23.2 sec. in the 200 meters and won the final by another three yds. Then, running with three of her Tigerbelle teammates from Tennessee State, Wilma anchored the winning 400-meter relay team...
...wonder was that Wilma Rudolph could run at all. The 17th in a family of 19 children, Wilma had a series of crippling childhood diseases, did not walk until she was eight, and then had to wear a hightop, corrective shoe. By high school, Wilma had improved enough to become a four-year, all-state basketball player and to clean up in track. Now a junior at Tennessee State, Wilma is studying to be a teacher (average grade: B plus), has so little trouble winning races in the U.S. that she has sometimes slowed down in mid-sprint to shout...