Word: australian-born
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bolsky) for damage incurred during a music-hall show three years ago. Slater, Diana charged, had not only hypnotized her in the course of his act as he intended, but sent her home in a psychological depression that lasted almost three years. It took, she said, 23 visits to Australian-born Dr. Sydney Van Pelt, president of the British Society of Medical Hypnotists and avowed foe of stage hypnotism, to dehypnotize...
Technically, the dancing was almost always good, but it was seldom exciting. Australian-born Elaine Fifield, sometimes touted as the heiress apparent to the senior ballet's Margot Fonteyn, showed off flawless timing and technique. But at 21 she lacks the fire, brilliance and riveting personality that distinguish a prima ballerina from a principal dancer. Lithuanian-born Co-Star Svetlana Beriosova had elegance and style, but not the breathtaking precision of either Fonteyn or the New York City Ballet's Maria Tallchief. The male dancers were strong, but none yet looked like another Eglevsky (New York City Ballet...
...more irritating than a Monday-morning quarterback-particularly when he may be right. Australian-born Chester Wilmot's The Struggle for Europe will probably set more U.S. teeth on edge than any book yet written about World War II. As a political and military history, Dunkirk to V-E day, it could easily be labeled anti-American. Yet it deserves a fair hearing and not just as a matter of courtesy. Wilmot, a BBC war correspondent who went in with the British airborne troops on Dday, has written a better and more readable account of the fighting in Europe...
Last week his name turned up on the Communist list of U.N. prisoners, and this week Wilfred Burchett, Australian-born correspondent for the Paris Communist daily Ce Soir, told allied newsmen that he had interviewed Dean only a few days earlier, in a Red prison camp at Pyongyang. They had talked for three hours over drinks of gin. Burchett relayed Dean's story...
...health, Sir John called in Geoffrey Marshall, 64, an expert on lung diseases, and Sir Robert Arthur Young, 80, grand old man of British chest experts. X rays by Radiologist Peter James Kerley and others showed what seemed to be a growth in the left lung. Australian-born Brigadier Sir Thomas Peel Dunhill, 75, who enjoys the title of Sergeant Surgeon to the King, agreed that an operation was necessary. The doctors decided that another Welshman, Chest Surgeon Clement Price Thomas, was the man to do the surgery...