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With gentle urging, but always keeping Country Boy in easy, deliberate hand, Norma cleared jump after jump cleanly, guided willing Country Boy to a flawless ride-and the first U.S. team victory in the National in two years. The appreciative roar from the usually staid crowd would have done credit to a fight mob cheering a knockout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Back in the Saddle | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...rarely lets up. Actress Taylor, perfectly cast, gives a winning performance. But in a production that makes a happy blend of many talents, Veteran Tracy is by far the most conspicuous. The role of the harassed, neglected father is his best in years, and from start to finish his flawless playing is a joy to watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, May 29, 1950 | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...very faint qualm that, in a student council not as efficient, flawless, and unimpeachable as this one, the adjectival polysyllabicism might possibly adumbrate the latent pomposity which would seem to be inherent in the mind which is attracted to microcosmic politics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell House Election Revisited | 5/2/1950 | See Source »

...four years and eleven issues, in lively and generally flawless Latin, the Acta has been reporting the news of ancient Rome for teachers and pupils in schools all over Britain. With a slim capital of ?100, two Latin masters-George Maxwell Lyne, 44, of the Blackpool Grammar School and Robert Douglas Wormald, 49, of the Worcester Royal Grammar School-had started it to persuade Britons that there was really nothing very dead about Latin. Their readers seemed to agree: teachers began ordering as many as 50 and 100 copies at a time (price: sixpence apiece). Circulation hit 9,000 with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Soon: Cleopatra | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

Died. Waslav Nijinsky, 60, the ballet dancer whose brilliant, ten-year career of flawless grace and soaring leaps became romantic legend after he was pronounced incurably insane (dementia praecox) in-1919; of a kidney ailment; in London. Born and schooled in Russia, he set European balletomanes abuzz in 1911 when he danced Le Spectre de la Rose, Petrouchka, and L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune in Serge Diaghilev's new ballet company which opened in Paris. In 1916 he toured the Americas, where his fame mounted while his mental health declined (he began to identify himself with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

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