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...gold-draped stage in the Waldorf-Astoria's grand ballroom, the shiny new Ford makes its bow this week. It is a sleek, square-cut car only 5 ft. 3 in. high and completely redesigned from grill to luggage compartment. With seats eight inches wider than the 1948 models, more luggage space, 20 square feet of windows and a new-fangled heating and ventilating unit, the 1949 Ford has an optional six-or eight-cylinder motor. The traditional (and hard riding) transverse springs have been replaced by coil springs in the front, leaf springs parallel to the frame...
Pennsylvania's coach, Rusty Callow, calls them the second best crew he has ever seen. Reading from stern to bow: SAM MANTEL, cox; BILL CURWEN, stroke; PAUL KNAPLUND (captain), 7; FRANK STRONG, 6; JUD GALE, 5; DICK EMMET, 4; TED REYNOLDS, 3; DON FELT, 2; MIKE SCULLY, bow...
...since 1909 . . . knows very well the logical anatomical basis of the Five Absolute Ballet Positions. In the Third Position (the heel of one foot locked against the instep of the other, weight equally distributed, with complete turnout), Mr. Stravinsky would have found it awkward to execute the traditional stage bow derived from the imperial Russian theater. He took it in Fourth Position (with weight equally divided, the fore foot is twelve inches in advance of the back...
...state religion, although the people were permitted to practice it privately. The Emperor was reduced from the status of a god to a symbol of the state and of national unity. Streetcars passing the Imperial Palace no longer stopped so that the conductors could get out and bow. Young Prince Akihito might soon be asking his father what it had been like...
...London music hall is no accident. She calls herself a Cockney, though she was actually born in the London suburb of Lewisham, beyond the sound of Bow Bells. Her parents, she remembers, were "a bit arty-went in for pacifism, vegetarianism, Socialism and all that." At ten, she met Raymond Duncan, who sent her to study dancing with his sister Isadora. At 16, Elsa organized a London theater company, which put on one-act plays by Chekhov and Pirandello...