Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...match was due to the fact that: 1) it was Vines's first appearance as a professional; 2) it offered the first real test since 1930 between Tilden, 41, and Vines. 22, each a No. 1 amateur of his day; 3) it promised an evening of brilliant tennis. In all respects the crowd got its money's worth. Before the first set was over the crowd saw that Vines, although inexperienced on indoor courts, had improved after his collapse last year. But so had the amazing Tilden who attributes his middle-age agil ity largely to the skill...
...adequate provision for the protection of the pro-French anti-Nazi minority. Or it might be possible to establish the Saar as an autonomous district under the League, although this would be a very dubious experiment. Whatever is done the year 1935 may be counted on to provide a brilliant display of international fireworks in the Saar Valley...
...always seemed to me that the man of average intellect needs the tutorial system even more than does the brilliant student," says Mr. Harkness. "So far as my knowledge goes the tutorial system is working very well. I have no criticisms and nothing but praise for it. I believe it might well be adopted for all departments and classes of students in the University...
...down to take it over, Princess Charlotte was ready to finance him. Nijinsky was no longer there. His brain had cracked and he was in a Swiss asylum. But there was handsome Leonide Massine who, if not so great a dancer, was a better maltre de ballet, a more brilliant choreographer. And there was Leon Woizikovsky who had done many of Ni- jinsky's roles (Harlequin, Petrouchka, the faun in L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune). Woizikovsky went off with Anna Pavlova, stayed with her until she died (TIME, Feb. 2, 1931). Then he returned to Monte...
...other miscellany-all the while gibbling &; gabbling with his august audience. Johnny has appeared in motion pictures displayed to psychologists in Chicago last autumn (TIME, Sept. 18). Last week's was his first personal appearance before a large audience. Like every smart entertainer, Johnny had a less brilliant but by no means dull, companion in his "act," his twin brother Jimmy. Precocious Johnny and normal Jimmy put on their performance at Manhattan's Babies Hospital. Manager was Dr. Myrtle Byram McGraw, jolly assistant director of the Normal Child Development Clinic of Manhattan's Neurological Institute. Impresario...