Word: ballerina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prettiest campaigners in British politics, twinkle-toed Cinemorsel Moira (The Red Shoes) Shearer, made her maiden speech in Rochdale, England, was rewarded with such hearty applause that she predicted: "I'll be Prime Minister yet!" But Ballerina Shearer plugged for votes "as the candidate's wife and not as a political speaker." Her candidate: Writer and onetime TV Newscaster Ludovic Kennedy, standing for Parliament on the Liberal ticket...
...tutus and brass-buttoned coats loaded with a fruit salad of stars, medals and epaulets (famed Costumer Karinska, who traditionally arrives, cavalrylike, just as Balanchine is about to burn, outdid herself by producing the outfits several hours before curtain time). All the dazzle did not glare from the costumes: Ballerina Diana Adams, in a blue, yellow and red drum majorette's rig, led a regiment of girls in high, prancing kicks to the tune of Rifle Regiment; Ringmaster Balanchine had 13 men of the ballet corps performing difficult, double in-the-air turns to Arranger Hershy...
Showstopper: a wacky session in which tiny Ballerina Melissa Hayden piccoloed about on her toes, and lanky Jacques d'Amboise bounded around in great, oompah leaps to the Liberty Bell and El Capitan marches...
...Year honors list, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II tapped some 2,200 subjects of the British Commonwealth for tribute. Elevated to the baronage, Field Marshal Sir John Harding, former governor of strife-torn Cyprus. As Commander Order of the British Empire, London-born (as Alice Marks) Prima Ballerina Alicia Markova, 47, long renowned for her Giselle; to the knighthood, Author-Biologist Julian Huxley, onetime director-general of UNESCO. The world featherweight boxing champion, Nigeria's Hogan ("Kid") Bassey, 25, learned that he had flailed his way to another laurel-Member of the Order of the British Empire...
...Force's most eligible bachelors, rocket-sledding Colonel John Paul Stapp (TIME, Sept. 12, 1955), 47, now head of the Air Force's "Man in Space" Committee, is scheduled to crash through the matrimonial barrier. The bride: attractive ex-Ballerina Lillian Lanese, 33, who helps run an El Paso ballet school. Though noted for his amateur cookery (mostly steaks), Space Surgeon Stapp was not sure who will preside over the kitchen: "Just say we'll manage to eat!" Long billed as "the fastest [632 m.p.h.] man on earth," Dr. Stapp allowed that he began romancing Lillian only...