Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...votes in dining halls today for its eight-man Class Committee. Following are biographies of the nominees...
...with the severe regimen of a Sadler's Wells ballerina-an endless round of class, rehearsals and performances-the champagne & lobster life comes only once in a blue moon. Margot would be among the first to agree with Frederick Ashton that "being a ballerina is like being a nun; it is a dedication...
Piccadilly by Neon. Even now that she has reached a pinnacle of perfection at 30, Margot is still seriously studious. Even after tough evening performances like Sleeping Beauty or Swan Lake she rarely misses the ritual of morning class, where she stretches at the bar like the other dancers. She is completely unaffected-a quality which helps set the atmosphere backstage. Explains Frederick Ashton: "When the prima ballerina doesn't put on airs, obviously anyone else trying to would only look ludicrous...
Matinees & Poetry. Helen Hokinson was the recording secretary of the clubwoman, the gentle, penetrating chronicler of the upper-middle-class matron. In 24 years of cartooning for The New Yorker (circ. 325,000), she limned her ladies with pen and wash more than 1,700 times-at the dressmaker's, in banks and bookshops, at matinees and flower shows, bridge clubs and poetry societies...
Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer brought Yukawa to the U.S. in 1948 to work at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Last spring Columbia University named him visiting professor of physics. One day last week, Yukawa dismissed his class for the day and reported to the office of Columbia's President Dwight Eisenhower. There he received a warm handshake and hearty congratulations. At 42, Hideki Yukawa had become the first of his countrymen to win a Nobel Prize. The $30,000 prize in physics was awarded for the theory Yukawa had propounded 14 years ago. (The Nobel Prize...