Word: elvin
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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...
...RALPH G. ELVIN...
Counter-Revolution. In Chicago, Lester Elvin Brown explained to cops that he was "trying to revolutionize criminal methods" when he handed a cafe cashier a note reading: "Madam, this is a holdup. On your shoulders rests the responsibility for the aversion of a tragedy...
...bodies of U Aung San and his Buddhist fellow victims (which will lie in state a month before burial). Burma now had a martyr and a legend. The Bogyok's A.F.P.F.L. party was more popular than ever, but its leadership had been almost obliterated. British Governor Sir Hubert Elvin Rance (who gets assassination threats almost every day) announced to Burmans: "I am glad to inform you that . . . Thakin Nu [the murdered leader's right-hand man] has agreed to form a new council...
This week, five years later, the paper is being published (with no comment from the Government) in the Journal of Immunology. Drs. Theodor Rosebury and Elvin Kabat originally wrote it to scare Washington officials; now, they say, they are publishing it to scare the public. Set down with a kind of desperate, scientific calm, the report would make as pleasantly alarming reading as any outrageous fictional chiller-except for the fact that it might all come true...