Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Yale's John Marshall, Australian Olympic swimmer, the Eastern Intercollegiate 1,500-meter and 220-yard titles; at New Haven. In his bid to keep his "triple title, Marshall was edged by his roommate Wayne Moore, by a stroke, in the 440-yard event...
...Englishman named Harry Alan Towers, 30, whipped into Manhattan and out again last week on business that, in the past year, has carried him seven times around the world. His business: the international hawking of recorded radio shows. Towers sells British programs in the U.S., U.S. recordings in Australia, Australian programs in South Africa. "I doubt," he boasts, "that you can mention a radio station in the English-speaking world where we don't do business...