Word: blair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. David Blair Owen, 51, onetime president of Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., who resigned in 1952 after a New York judge sent five Bradley basketball players to jail for throwing a game but fingered Owen as the true culprit for fostering "illegal recruiting, subsidization of athletes, evasion of scholastic standards, corruption of the athlete, the coach and the college official"; of a beating suffered when he was robbed and stripped in a cheap Washington, D.C. hotel...
...Nadia Nerina (born Nadine Judd in Cape Town), long acknowledged the company's most polished virtuoso. Around the 32-year-old ballerina Ashton draped a ballet rich in invention, defiant of technical limitations, blending high jinks, low comedy and pathos. Brilliantly supported by Yorkshire-born David Blair (he managed a singlehanded portage not rivaled at Covent Garden since Ulanova was toted out of Juliet's tomb), Dancer Nerina turned in a performance of superb precision, fluency and lightness. The ballet had some stunning virtuoso bits: a pas de ruban running like a thread through the first two scenes...
Khrushchev came in September, and his visit is recalled in kaleidoscopic flash back?of Khrushchev baronially breathing the morning air in front of Blair House; of Khrushchev bulling his way across the U.S., now boasting of Russian military might and space achievement, now uttering dulcet promises of peace and friendship; of Khrushchev threatening to pick up his marbles and go home when denied a chance to go to Southern California's Disneyland; of Khrushchev falling in love with San Francisco; and of Khrushchev roaring in merriment while an Iowa farmer shied ensilage at the newsmen who had crowded too close...
Chevy Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Janet Blair fills in for Dinah Shore and takes a trip Around the World with Nellie Bly. Her traveling companion: Cornel Wilde...