Word: april
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cervantes died on April 23, 1616, the same day as William Shakespeare" [TIME, Oct. 3], Not quite so. The same date, but not the same day. The English bard died on April 23 Old Style, or May 3 New Style, the system of reckoning already adopted in Spain...
Sponsored by the Newsman's Commission to Investigate the Murder of George Polk, Polk left the United States April 5 for Salonika, Greece, the scene of the CBS correspondent's murder and the subsequent trial...
...Fallen Idol. Author Graham Greene and Director Carol Reed wring suspense from the story of a small boy 'Bobby Henrey) in a world of adult intrigues (TIME, April...
...Sleeping Beauty. There was one Russian dancer: Violetta Elvin, but she is married to a Briton who brought her out of Moscow after World War II. The two stars with the brightest shine were born in Surrey and Fifeshire: dark-haired Margot Fonteyn (TIME, April 15, 1946) and red-haired Moira (The Red Shoes) Shearer. The leading male dancer, Robert Helpmann, is somewhat of a foreigner-from Australia. Chief Choreographer Frederick (Cinderella, Facade) Ashton was born in Ecuador of British parents. Some of the ballets had unmistakably British subjects, among them The Rake's Progress (De Valois) and Hamlet...
March will be devoted to study of American History and Literature under the direction of Professor Thomas H. Vance of Dartmouth. Sociology is the subject of the April conference, while May is set for Art and Music, led by David Diamond, and June for Theater conducted by Eric Bentley...