Word: helens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ties for the younger boys, black-and-brown dresses and orange ties for the girls. Their rigid course takes nine years, with up to five hours of practice a day. On graduation day the students enter the state examination room, called by the school's Director Helen Bocharni-kova "the most terrifying place in Moscow," and dance for the choreographers of all Russia's major ballet theaters. They are then farmed out according to their ability, with the Bolshoi getting first pick of the crop...
Alfred Chaoul Khozouri Bakhash '59 of Lowell House and Teheran has received the $500 Helen Choate Bell prize for his essay "Combat with the Sun: A Study of Wallace Stevens' 'Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction.'" Honorable mention went to Mrs. Roberta Segal Karmel '59 of Boston for her essay "William Dean Howells and the Isolated Personality...
...Sultan's catchable eye was caught by Helen Wilson, the Scottish wife of his physician. He divorced his four Malayan wives by the Moslem formula of telling them "Get out" three times before witnesses. Helen Wilson sailed home for the more laborious Western process of divorcing her husband, married the Sultan later that year, and honeymooned with him in the U.S., where the Sultan was equally affable with President Franklin Roosevelt and Mae West...
...London for the 1937 coronation of King George VI, the Sultan's roving eye focused on a British show girl named Lydia Hill. Hurriedly muttering triple "Get outs" to Sultana Helen and giving her $250,000 in jewels and a yearly alimony of $25,000, the Sultan sailed for home with Lydia...
...sleuthing has also revealed that Liszt's great rival, Austrian Piano Virtuoso Sigismond Thalberg, was not, as he claimed to be, the bastard son of nobility (his real parents were Theodore Thalberg and Fortunee Stein, who may even have been married to each other); that Soprano Helen Traubel sliced four years off her age in her autobiography (she was born in 1899, not 1903); that the dates of Wagner's imprisonment for debt in Paris, a little matter omitted in Wagner's own accounts, were from Oct. 28 to Nov. 17, 1840. It was Slonimsky who several...