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In describing Igor Stravinsky at the triumphant premiere of his new ballet Orpheus . . . you say that the greatest living composer of ballet scores "took his bows onstage with the dancers, his feet crossed in his best Position III" [TIME, May 10].
When 65-year-old Composer Stravinsky jumped briskly to the podium, he got an ovation. When the curtain went up, the audience was at first more taken with the simple blue & white brilliance of the set (by Isamu Noguchi) than with the somber opening chords of Stravinsky's music...
Williner Bows Out
"They imprisoned me ten times," he reminisces. His last and longest imprisonment, from 1938 to 1941, began under the Metaxas dictatorship, ended under the Nazis. He escaped from the Germans in 1941, helped to organize the resistance group EAM and their army ELAS. He became kapitanos of the "Macedonian Group...
With that, the curtain rolled down on 1948's collegiate basketball season, leaving Kentucky out front, taking bows as team-of-the-year (N.C.A.A. champions are usually so acknowledged). There was angry buzzing in the wings. Some experts thought that St. Louis University, winner of the rival National Invitation...