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Choreographer Michael Kidd has designed some charming and witty dance routines. Hotspots: a clever production number, kidding the Mickey Spillane type of literary hopheadiness; a moony little foxtrot through Central Park; a raucous hit of pedal jabberwocky by Astaire at a 42nd Street shoeshine stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 13, 1953 | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

Each morning the 38 students get a stiff bout of lectures. They not only master menus ("What kind of pie is this 'assorted'?" asked one student), but also timetables, train tickets, how to tip, how to type. They learn to foxtrot, travel by bus, use a Bendix and electric iron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Anti-Homusicku | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

...stammer. Last week the International Civil Aviation Organization, which sets stand ard international radio procedures around the world, brought out a new alphabet which it believed would be more universally pronounceable. The old and the new : OLD NEW Able Alfa Baker Bravo Charlie Coca Dog Delta Easy Echo Fox Foxtrot George Golf How Hotel Item India Jig Juliett King Kilo Love Lima Mike Metro Nan Nectar Oboe Oscar Peter Papa Queen Quebec Roger Romeo Sugar Sierra Tare Tango Uncle Union Victor Victor William Whisky X Ray Extra Yoke Yankee Zebra Zulu The U.S. will probably swing over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Jig or Juliett | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

Tell Me You Love Me. A heartbreaking attempt to restyle Pagliacci's old heartbreaker, Vesti la giubba, as a ballad-foxtrot. The most popular version: Mercury's, featuring Vic Damone as the pop Pagliaccio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Feb. 12, 1951 | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...annual Christmas dance for the servants at Buckingham Palace got under way when the orchestra struck up Night and Day and King George VI led Household Maid Isabel Ross in the first foxtrot of the evening. Then, instead of leaving after his usual one duty dance, His Majesty enjoyed two more rounds while Queen Elizabeth, in gold-tinted crinoline and a diamond tiara, danced with her deputy steward and a page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 1, 1951 | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

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