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...DIED. MOIRA SHEARER, 80, Scottish ballet dancer, actress and writer famed for her role as the ballerina in the 1948 classic The Red Shoes; in Oxford, Britain. Flame-haired and strikingly beautiful, Shearer danced iconic parts for London's Sadler's Wells (now Royal) Ballet in the 1940s. But she popularized the art with Oscar-winning The Red Shoes, based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale of a girl forced by her shoes to dance until she died. "Here was this apparition," recalled Shearer's husband, writer and broadcaster Ludovic Kennedy, "with ... a figure like an hour-glass, blue-green...
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...1940s: In the U.S., Ford factories, including its famed Willow Run plant, churn out tanks, cannons and planes for the war effort...
...secret," laughs Stephen Choo Quan, 32, an expat Trini living in the U.S., who tries to get home every year to attend. Anthony McQuilkin, 63, has played the bass pan in Desperadoes for over 40 years. Desperadoes is a 120-member steel band that was formed in the 1940s, and has won Panorama 10 times since the competition's inception. "The musical arrangements are very intricate," he says. "Every player has been practicing this tune for up to eight weeks. Just to get on that stage to perform it to all those people, you're totally into the music...
...secret," laughs Stephen Choo Quan, 32, an expat Trini living in the U.S., who tries to get home every year to attend. Anthony McQuilkin, 63, has played the bass pan in Desperadoes for over 40 years. Desperadoes is a 120-member steel band that was formed in the 1940s, and has won Panorama 10 times since the competition's inception. "The musical arrangements are very intricate," he says. "Every player has been practicing this tune for up to eight weeks. Just to get on that stage to perform it to all those people, you're totally into the music...