Word: briton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sleeping Beauty. There was one Russian dancer: Violetta Elvin, but she is married to a Briton who brought her out of Moscow after World War II. The two stars with the brightest shine were born in Surrey and Fifeshire: dark-haired Margot Fonteyn (TIME, April 15, 1946) and red-haired Moira (The Red Shoes) Shearer. The leading male dancer, Robert Helpmann, is somewhat of a foreigner-from Australia. Chief Choreographer Frederick (Cinderella, Facade) Ashton was born in Ecuador of British parents. Some of the ballets had unmistakably British subjects, among them The Rake's Progress (De Valois) and Hamlet...
...best explanation of the calamitous 1949 season was simply that more people were climbing, and having more accidents. Another explanation: the long, hot summer had dried out slopes, increased the number of avalanches. One 18-year-old Briton who spent three days trapped on a mountain ledge-and lived to tell about it -was Timothy Smiley of Aberystwyth...
...rate of $4.03. The speculators had simply gambled on a fast profit. They made it. They had been able to sell short by putting up margins of as little as 25%, thus doubling their money. No one knew how big the short position in pounds had been. (One Briton gave the ridiculous estimate of ?2 billion.) But it was large and the profits ran to millions...
...From the Black Magic's deck, Frank Sinatra records beamed encouragement to the struggling swimmer: "Down & down I go, round & round I go, like a leaf that's caught in the tide . . . under That Old Black Magic . . ." The Red Commodore also relayed a message from young (18) Briton Philip Mickman, who had unobtrusively swum the Channel two weeks before: "Head up, chin up, spit it out, beat Old Man Channel." Between wireless messages, the A.P. released carrier pigeons to fly bulletins to England. Unfortunately, the pigeons flew to France...
...that afternoon, the play began for keeps. There were a few wise-looking Americans and many sheepish Europeans. One lorgnetted lady inspected the game, flounced away horrified. This was not the old Monte Carlo she knew. A Briton fumed: "If they expect people to play this beastly game, the least they can do is to let them sit down...