Word: footwork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Lamar, boxing coach, continues to head the pugilistic program. At the beginning of the summer term, the men were limited to practicing fundamental punches and footwork; but now, after a few pointers at the beginning of each session, they pair off according to weight and go through four or five rounds of fighting...
...organizers who demurred at raiding other C.I.O. unions, or field workers whose loyalty to John Lewis was doubtful, were quickly purged. Their work, said Miss Lewis languidly, was "unsatisfactory." Miss Lewis' languid air covers a nimble mind. Formally educated at Bryn Mawr, she learned her footwork from Father John. Established behind a huge desk in a cathedral-like office three floors below his, she makes tough decisions in a soft, clipped voice. One of her first decisions was to drop the phrase "affiliated with the C.I.O." from the masthead of District 50 News...
...question was not whether yoga had improved Nova's stance, balance and clumsy footwork. It was whether age (27) and constant fighting (six times this year) had slowed up the magnificent fighting machine that was Louis...
...Europe last week, save Sweden's Gustaf, there was only one King who could call his crown his own. This was Boris III of Bulgaria. And among Europe's hurrying traders in sovereignty, this sovereign's was perhaps the most ticklish predicament of all, his footwork perhaps the neatest...
Dancer Massine now confines himself to character dancing; like an actor, he knows how to give an effect of brilliance and vivacity by piecing out simple footwork with deft body movements, well-timed claps and stomps. But where the De Basil ballet is short on men-its best is David Lichine, choreographer as well as dancer-the massine troupe has four of the best: Roland Guerard of Flat Rock, N.C. one of the first U.S.-born Ballet Russers who was allowed to dance under his own name; Frederic Franklin, exuberant British onetime hoofer; and two genuine Russians, Igor Youskevitch...