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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more of Fonteyn's roles. More enthusiastically than ever, the critics applauded her lithe, leggy build, her cool, fluid movements, which are reminiscent of the early Fonteyn's. Although the restrictions of Pagodas' choreography gave the critics less to rave about last week, Beriosova displayed the classic arch-of-back and lift-of-leg passages that have moved her audiences in the past. There is still no indication of when 37-year-old Margot Fonteyn will finally step down, but when she does, the Sadler's Wells company may well find in Beriosova a talented replacement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Heiress Presumptive | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

...basketball-batty crowd of 12,400 that stuffed Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh, N.C. last week, the annual Dixie Classic tournament was another war between the states. Teams from Utah, Iowa, West Virginia and Illinois marched in to play four Southern teams. By the end of the tournament's first round, all four invaders were licked; after the second round Wake Forest and North Carolina were left to fight it out between themselves. At tournament's end North Carolina was the new champion (63-55) of the "tobacco triangle," a sleepy corner of eastern Carolina that habitually produces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tobacco Road Rebels | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...Working the post-season game pitch for all it is worth, the Shriners put on two classic all-star contests. At Miami's Orange Bowl, a Northern eleven, led by Oklahoma's All-America Halfback Tommy McDonald and leaning heavily on the good passing arm of Purdue's Len Dawson, beat the pride of the South, 17-7. At San Francisco's Kezar Stadium, Stanford's All-America Passer John Brodie joined forces with U.S.C.'s Jon Arnett and U.C.L.A.'s Pete O'Garro to lead his Western teammates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jan. 7, 1957 | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...Dungeon for Recalcitrant Husbands) and he delivers the lines and lyrics of Playwright Maurice Valency's able English adaptation with skilled gusto. In fact, Ritchard is guilty of only one flaw. He has included a cancan that is danced by the corps de ballet in more or less classic white ballet costumes-and a cancan without flashing garters is like a violin without a G string...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Romp at the Met | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

Diagnosis is far more accurate nowadays because much has been learned about the variability of angina symptoms. These were formerly supposed to follow a rigid and classic pattern, with a viselike tight pain in the chest, radiating to the back and down the left arm, accompanied by fear of impending death. With the realization that one or more signs may be missing, doctors are diagnosing angina earlier and oftener...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Angina Then & Now | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

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