Word: helene
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...Berlin Ballet company had performed Firebird and the pas de deux from Don Quixote before a packed Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, and it was time for the orchestra to take a break. Helen Hagnes, 30, an attractive, blond, Canadian-born violinist told a friend that she was going to see Valery Panov, the Soviet-born choreographer and principal dancer for the Berlin Ballet, to ask him to pose for her sculptor husband, Janis Mintiks...
...never got to Panov's dressing room. Colleagues missed her when the company began dancing the ballet Miss Julie, in which a noblewoman (danced by Panov's wife Galina) seduces a servant and then, with his help, kills herself. The next morning, police found Helen Hagnes. She had been stripped naked, bound and gagged, and hurled 70 ft. from the Met's roof to her death in an air shaft...
...some areas, double the national average. As of last week, the state had tallied more than 230 temperature-related deaths. In sweltering St. Louis, calls for ambulances rose to 350 a day, almost double the normal level. Many of the city's elderly, explained Health Commissioner Helen Bruce, "live in areas they consider dangerous, so they have nailed their windows down and keep their doors locked." During the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s, St. Louis residents beat the heat by sleeping in parks or along the Mississippi river front. Today, says one police officer, "you'd have...
...that I would be most proud to teach down the hall from Helen Scott? I feel there is more than semantics involved when she refers to her class as "children" rather than "kids," and the individual as "a child" rather than...
...DIED. Helen Gahagan Douglas, 79, actress-turned-politician who as a Democratic Congresswoman from California lost a notoriously bitter U.S. Senate campaign in 1950 to a young Republican named Richard Nixon; of cancer; in Manhattan. The election battle, in which Nixon's attacks on his liberal opponent for being "soft on Communism" first earned him the epithet "Tricky Dick," ended Douglas' political career. She rarely spoke about her onetime foe afterward, but her husband, Actor Melvyn Douglas, was less reticent: "A little, sneaky kind of character...