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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Word Eater. She worked seven days a week, three hours a day. Where others often get much of their training as apprentices performing in public, she held out until she had perfected herself to the caliber of the center ring. Carrying a large plumed fan and wearing golden shoes, she is the new star of the traditional aerial ballet-one of the circus' four production numbers-and people of the circus have already compared her with the late, indubitably great Lillian Leitzel, who died 26 years ago in a fall in Copenhagen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Circuses: Freshman on High | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

...Cliffies, please help us," pleaded the captain of the tiddlywinks team last night. James D. Parry '64 explained that the team members need three or four volunteer secretaries to handle the avalanche of fan mail which is burying them. "If you're willing to help, drop in anytime," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winkers Plead For Secretary | 1/28/1963 | See Source »

Many correspondents offer carefully thought out advice. One particularly astute fan suggested the superior parabolic trajectory followed by elliptical winks. "He was absolutely right," admits Parry. "We experimented and found that the best ratio between the major axis and the semi-minor axis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winkers Plead For Secretary | 1/28/1963 | See Source »

...tiny, vivacious wife Dora, he lived modestly within his $8,400 salary in a twelve-room house in Hampstead; unpretentiously, he and Dora entertained Tory peers, businessmen and visiting U.S. intellectuals. Inspired by his daughters, Julia, 23, and Cressida, 20, Gaitskell loved to dance and was a fan of Peggy Lee and Ella Fitzgerald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Quiet Man | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

...unwashed, unshaven, but indubitably Occidental bum. Yet there was little bitterness among the Japanese-Americans. "A word that I heard over and over again whenever there would be an incident or a slight was shikataganai, which means 'it can't be helped.' " The Silent Fan. In 1926, when Yamasaki was a sophomore at Garfield High, his mother's brother, Koken Ito, came to stay at the Yamasaki home. Ito had earned an architectural degree at the University of California at Berkeley, and when he began working on some drawings in his room, he found himself with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Road to Xanadu | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

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