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...first U.S. ballet troupe that ever invaded South America. Tall, truculent Lincoln Kirstein, reviving his barnstorming Ballet Caravan, had assembled a company of 52, 60 crates of scenery and costumes, a repertory of 14 ballets. On opening night, Rio saw Estacion Gasolinera (by Choregrapher Lew Christenson, Composer Virgil Thomson, Painter Paul Cadmus), which the U.S. knew as Filling Station...
...child's mother, beauteous, 26-year-old Countess Jane de Tristan (heiress as Jane Christenson to West Coast shipping and lumber fortunes), waited for the second letter. None came. Police kept hands off, to allow Louis S. Gates, the Countess' stepfather and president of Phelps-Dodge Corp., to get in touch with the kidnapper. But 24 hours went by and nothing happened. The hours were black and long for the de Tristans...
Last week it became apparent that Mr. Dimond was not unduly alarmed. From the captain of the Bering Sea schooner Sophie Christenson came a radio to home offices at Seattle: "Bering Sea covered with Japanese fishing boats and nets. . . . No cutters around. We have God-given instinct to shoot straight. Please ship dozen high-powered rifles, plenty of ammunition...
...Sophie Christenson's operators prepared to comply, and to duplicate the order for their schooner Charles R. Wilson, U. S. Coast Guardsmen said four cutters were watching Japanese and U. S. fishermen, apparently did not find Japanese encroaching. Snapped a Coast Guardsman, also cherishing God-given instinct: "If there's any shooting to be done...
...things stand it cannot be judged fairly if at all. Banning "Dead Eye Dick" did no good, but the writing of better stories on the same topic hastened his demise. Banning eventually defeats its own end, by giving a book great publicity, and by organizing its own opposition. J.A. Christenson...