Word: topper
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...from Mark Twain and Enrico Caruso before capturing Flo Ziegfeld as her husband. Her fame came from her skill as a comedienne in the years after 1930, when she appeared as a flibbertigibbet in scores of plays (Her Master's Voice, Mrs. January and Mr. X) and movies (Topper, The Wizard of Oz, Hi Diddle Diddle). "Oh," she once wrote, "that sad and bewildering moment when you are no longer the cherished darling, but must turn the corner and try to be funny...
...Dino are high-school dropouts who long ago learned to hustle in the streets of Washington, D.C. Two years ago, they were snorting or shooting heroin, snatching purses and breaking into parked cars. They gave up drugs and street crime when they discovered the New Thing, founded by Colin ("Topper") Carew, 27, a former Boston gang leader who will soon earn a bachelor's degree from Yale. Financed mainly by foundation grants, the New Thing is, according to Carew, "a black arts high school in Washington for kids who have rejected public high school." He has about...