Word: dancer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dancing and investing in the stock market alike? Wall Street may not think so, but Dancer Nicholas Darvas does. To find out how he has danced his way to a fortune in stocks, see BUSINESS, Pas de Dough...
...Elizabeth in shimmering gold gown as her high-backed throne turns slowly to the audience, the ritualistic tennis game played with gold rackets and balls by Elizabeth and Mary. If the work of Choreographer Graham sometimes seemed pretentious in its symbolism, it was redeemed by the performance of Dancer Graham, who moved sometimes with an imperious tread, sometimes with the pathetic lurchings of a crippled bird as the doors of hope closed...
...oddest gandy-dancer on the railroads in Manitoba during the summer of 1926 was a 6-ft. 4-in. American medical student named Ben Spock, who owned a resplendent red handlebar mustache and an oilcloth blackboard. After a ten-hour day of shoveling gravel and sand to keep the railroad track from sinking into the muskeg, Spock would wipe the sweat from his mustache, wolf a huge supper, and unroll his blackboard. His afterhours task: teaching basic English to 40 sunburned Galician laborers. "I didn't get very far," recalls Dr. Spock, who has since lost the mustache, become...
Ulanova does not have the biggest mass following in Russia: younger fans prefer 32-year-old Maya Plisetskaya (TIME, May 4). But Ulanova is the most revered Russian dancer (perhaps the most revered Russian artist in any field), and was even before she moved to the Bolshoi Company in 1944. Born in St. Petersburg in 1910, she was introduced to the dance early: her father, Sergei Ulanov, was a member of the corps at the famed Mariinsky (now Kirov) Theater, and her mother, Maria Romanova, a Mariinsky soloist and teacher at the St. Petersburg Ballet School. At first Galina...
...Perry Como Show (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). With Dancer Carol Haney, a highly nutritious broth of a girl...