Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Choreographer Ross based his work on an early (1902) Thomas Mann story, a sort of literary foothill to his later Magic Mountain. The ballet began in a stark hospital room done in astringent blues and whites. The tuberculous heroine (Ballerina Nora Kaye) beat feebly on the single closed door, panted, felt her heart, slithered onto a chair and sank to the floor in a crawling frenzy. She was joined there by the hero (Erik Bruhn). Together they clutched, held, tangled and disentangled in a series of movements that ranged from the supine to the ridiculous...
From the tested model, Stephens designed a sleek, hard-charging champion that beat beautifully to windward, cut cleanly through the sea. Britain's Boyd built a barrel-chested challenger that bobbed too much in rough weather, slid off badly to windward. White-haired Cornelius ("Corny") Shields, Columbia's tactician during last summer's trials, put his racing-wise finger on Sceptre's big shortcoming: "She's too full forward and too fine...
When the reporters surrounded President Eisenhower, there was jovial, mustached Merriman Smith, 45, of United Press International, looming just as large as he had for 17 years before his unwanted assignment last spring to the Treasury beat (TIME, March...
Smith's reaction to getting the Treasury beat was to tear into the recession news with the seriousness and energy of a cub reporter. He turned out interpretative pieces, got a clear beat on one month's unemployment figures when they were the hottest news in town, was among the first to predict that the federal deficit for this fiscal year would be high (current Bureau of the Budget estimate: $12.2 billion...
With recession news receding, Merriman Smith was reassigned to the White House beat, showed up happily last week perched on the side door of the U.P.I.'s red and white convertible as it slowly tailed Ike's limousine at Ligonier, Pa. Still undecided was whether Smith would resume his old status as senior wire service correspondent, regain the perquisite of ending presidential press conferences with "Thank you, Mr. President." But for the time being, Newsman Smith was glad enough just to be back from Peoria...