Derek Walcott in his poem " The Spoiler's Return " borrows the calypsonian's persona, reworking his " Bedbug " calypso and making satirical use of Spoiler's trademark incantation: " Ah wanna fall!

His professional career began when he was twenty ; ;

He returned to New York to work for The New Yorker, to edit a Western pulp, to `` duck the war in the OWI '', to write publicity for Paramount Pictures and commentary for a newsreel, then he began his career as critic for various magazines.

And the career of Konrad Adenauer, who upheld Germany's tradition of rock-like leaders which Bismarck began, draws near the end.

A brisk, amusing man, apparently constructed on an ingenious system of spring-joints attuned to the same peppery rhythm as his mind, Smith began his academic career teaching speech to Barnard girls -- a project considerably enlivened by his devotion to a recording about `` a young rat named Arthur, who never could make up his mind ''.

He began his coaching career at Pittsburgh Central Catholic High School in 1949.

That March he began his political career with his first campaign for the Illinois General Assembly.

However, he continued his slave trading career until 1754 or 1755, when he ended his seafaring altogether and began studying Christian theology.

Later joining the Roman army, he began his career under the Gothic soldier Gainas.

* Clark Gable, actor, began his career at the Astoria Theatre in 1922.

In the 1960s Korner began a media career, working initially as a show business interviewer and then on ITV's Five O ' Clock Club, a children's TV show.

She was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1980 and began her law career as an associate with the Washington, D. C. firm of Wald, Harkrader & Ross.

While Judah I was still living, Rav, having been duly ordained as teacher — though not without certain restrictions ( Sanhedrin 5a )— returned to Babylonia, where he at once began a career that was destined to mark an epoch in the development of Babylonian Judaism.

In 1904, he travelled to Berlin to study philosophy, but set aside his studies soon and began a career as a professional chess player that same year.

He began his career fighting the revolutionary armies of France.

His youth was spent in Tuscany, at Vienna and in the Austrian Netherlands, where he began his career of military service in the war of the French Revolution.

The couple moved to Paris the following year, where Guiler pursued his banking career and Nin began to pursue her interest in writing ; in her diaries she also mentions having trained as a flamenco dancer in Paris in the mid-to-late 1920s.

Like Cole Porter at Yale and Richard Rodgers at Columbia, his career in musical theater began with his collegiate contributions, in Lerner's case to the annual Harvard Hasty Pudding musicals.

He changed his surname from Einstein ( to avoid confusion with the famous physicist ) and began a comedy career that quickly made him a regular on variety and talk shows during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Thackeray began his professional career as a cartoonist with the English language daily the The Free Press Journal in Mumbai, but left it in 1960 to form his own political weekly Marmik.

Walsh began his pro coaching career in 1966 as an assistant with the AFL's Oakland Raiders.

Initially his mother was reluctant to let him commit to an insecure football career, so he began an apprenticeship as an electrical engineer ; however he went on to turn professional in October 1954.

His caps record lasted until 1973 when Bobby Moore overtook him, and Charlton currently lies fourth in the all-time England appearances list behind Moore, David Beckham and Peter Shilton, whose own England career began in the first game after Charlton's had ended.

Costas began his professional career at KMOX radio in St. Louis, Missouri, where he served as a play-by-play announcer for the Spirits of St. Louis of the American Basketball Association in 1974.

He began his professional career at the age of six, and has worked on over 400 television episodes, 18 motion pictures, various commercials, and scores of voice over work, as well as working as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and writer.

He began his professional career in this way, as the group toured English music halls from 1899 to 1902.

Aside from a first screen appearance as Adonis and the role of Johnny Duval in the 1946 film Swamp Fire, Weissmuller played only three roles in films during the heyday of his Hollywood career: Tarzan, Jungle Jim, and himself.

He played his entire 22-year Major League Baseball career as the left fielder for the Boston Red Sox ( 1939 – 1942 and 1946 – 1960 ).

For the 1946 baseball season, Williams hit. 342 with 38 home runs and 123 RBIs, helping the Red Sox win the pennant on September 13, hitting the only inside-the-park home run in his Major League career in a 1-0 win against Cleveland.

It was during the final day of filming Half-Wits Holiday on May 6, 1946, that Curly suffered a debilitating stroke on the set, ending his 14-year career.

He played almost his entire 19-year baseball career ( 1946 – 1965 ) for the New York Yankees.

Robert Penn Warren's 1946 American novel All the King's Men, the story of populist politician Willie Stark's rise to the position of governor and eventual fall, based on the career of the corrupt Louisiana Senator Huey Long, won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize.

In 1946, she came under the influence of director Emilio Fernández, with whom she made the films Enamorada ( 1946 ), Río Escondido ( 1947 ) and Maclovia ( 1948 ), launching her career throughout Europe.

Douglas Smith ( c. 1910-15 October 1972 ) began his broadcasting career with the BBC European Service ( now the World Service ) in 1946 and later worked as an announcer and newsreader on the Home Service and the Third Programme.

The pinnacle of Milland's career and acknowledgment of his serious dramatic abilities came in 1946 when he won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of an alcoholic in Billy Wilder's film The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ).

He resumed his career in 1946, now only in starring roles.

The springboard for Jagan's political career was the Political Affairs Committee ( PAC ), formed in 1946 as a discussion group.

While Follies was a hit, Yolanda bombed at the box office and Astaire, ever insecure and believing his career was beginning to falter, surprised his audiences by announcing his retirement during the production of Blue Skies ( 1946 ), nominating " Puttin ' on the Ritz " as his farewell dance.

Despite suffering from stage fright, he continued to work after the war, beginning his professional career in the summer of 1946 in a touring show called For the Fun of It.

He returned to Paris in 1946 to start his career as a film editor, but also embarked on short films of his own.

In 1946, as Blake's career was winding down, he enrolled in New York University, graduating in two and a half years.

When Roy Conacher moved on to the Chicago Black Hawks after the 1946 – 47 season, however, Howe was offered Conacher's # 9, which he would wear for the rest of his career ( although he had not requested the change, Howe accepted it when he was informed that " 9 " would entitle him to a lower Pullman berth on road trips ).

Although famous as # 9 during his long career, 18-year old Gordon Howe actually wore # 17 throughout his rookie season with the Detroit Red Wings in 1946 – 47.

Humphreys ' first novel The Little Kingdom was published in 1946 ; and during his long writing career he has published over twenty novels.

Mills took the lead in Great Expectations in 1946, and subsequently made his career playing traditionally British heroes such as Captain Scott in Scott of the Antarctic ( 1948 ).

In his film career, he played the grandfather in The Red Pony ( 1949 ), adapted from the novel by John Steinbeck and starring Robert Mitchum, and the spy boss of Cary Grant in the Alfred Hitchcock suspense classic Notorious ( 1946 ).

In 1946, Hudson moved to the Los Angeles area to pursue an acting career and applied to the University of Southern California's dramatics program, but he was rejected owing to poor grades.

Marianne Evelyn Faithfull ( born 29 December 1946 ) is an English singer, songwriter and actress whose career has spanned five decades.

After the war, Turner's career continued successfully with the release, The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ), which co-starred John Garfield.

Higham states that Fontaine " felt guilty about winning ; given her lack of obsessive career drive …" De Havilland went on to win Best Actress Oscars in 1946 and 1949.