Word: gallant
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United Air Lines, which last year made a gallant try to bring order out of chaos by introducing "one-class," one-fare flights on many runs, reversed its thrust, asked the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to begin three-class service in August. Should the CAB approve, as expected, United will become the first airline to offer first-class, "standard," and coach seats on transcontinental runs, will join TWA, American, and Continental Air Lines in three-class service on shorter flights...
...plans were enough to prostrate the most gallant music manager. Isaac Stern, Leonard Rose and Eugene Istomin-three top-dollar virtuosos-had teamed up to make chamber music together. Their audience might shrink to the size of the small halls in which trios usually play-and the take, of course, would be split three ways. But the trio had played an intriguing handful of concerts in the past, and bound by 20 years' friendship, they defiantly formed their alliance. Last week, solidly established as the best in 50 years, the Stern-Rose-Istomin Trio played their fifth sell...
Thanks almost entirely to Balanchine, it now compares favorably. When Balanchine took his two-year-old company on its first trip abroad in 1950, a London critic proposed a memorial to all the gallant Americans who fell at Covent Garden. Since then, on the strength of a repertory that consists more than two-thirds of Balanchine's own works, the company has been pronounced the most creative ballet group now dancing. In the lean, neoclassical style that is distinctly its own, it is indeed peerless...
...Elaine Dundy. A sequel in spirit to her bestselling novel, The Dud Avocado, this one is about the adventures of a gallant, galling young lady who tries, without manners or morals, to secure a place for herself in London's Mayfair society...
...horse ran in the Derby." They never win, but they clutter up the course. Then, the Derby being the Derby, there are bound to be ways of losing that nobody has thought up yet. Jockey Shoemaker should know. Seven years ago he hit on a dandy himself. Aboard Gallant Man, he had the race all but won in the stretch when he misjudged the finish line, stood up too soon in the stirrups and lost by a nose to Iron Liege...