Word: 1900s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Michel Fokine, 62, Russian "father of the modern ballet," and its greatest choreographer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A rebel, he organized an "underground" ballet movement in the early 1900s. In & out of the good graces of the Bolsheviks, he fled to the U.S. in 1919. Famed among Fokine's early followers were Nijinsky, Mordkin, Adolph Bolm, and Pavlova, for whom he created "The Dying Swan." Among his 70-odd ballets are most of the modern school's best-known works: Les Sylphides, Le Spectre de la Rose, Petrouchka...
...beginning he has helped the Administration regularly on informal assignments, and given it the benefit of his experience as World War I's head of war production. Now again, in a time of crisis, the U.S. has called on the Wall Street wizard of the early 1900s...
Barnside humor like this made On a Slow Train Through Arkansaw a best-seller on trains and newsstands in the early 1900s. The two-bit joke book was the making of Author Thomas W. Jackson and the unmaking of Arkansas. No matter how the State progressed, no matter how its cities grew, it was always backwoods to the rest of the U.S. Arkansans developed a mass inferiority complex unique in U.S. history...
...faces of another generation looked out of two news photographs: 20-month-old Winston Churchill II striding boldly along a London street on a visit from the country was like a miniature edition of his famed grandfather. The young "Princess Alice" Roosevelt of the early 1900s reappeared in a picture of her daughter, Paulina Longworth, now suddenly a young lady of 17 making her debut...
Married. Joseph B. ("Tinker to Evers to Chance") Tinker, 61, member of baseball's famed double-play combination in the early 1900s; and Susanna Margaret Chabot, 40; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in Orlando...