Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pole vault, Tarzan-armed Don Bragg, holder of the world indoor record (15 ft. 9½ in.), redeemed his loss...
...Feste of Alvin Epstein is outstanding. But even his performance is overshadowed by those of the two sidekicks Berghof invented for him. The Dancing Zany in entrusted to Geoffrey Holder, a 28-year-old six-and-a-half-foot mine of talent: dancer, choreographer, singer, actor, painter, composer, writer, photographer, book illustrator, and folklorist. This show draws on only the first three of his many gifts. Dressed in a striking white costume with mismatched red and orange gloves and stockings, he does a thousand and one things with skill and vigor. The Singing Zany is played by Russell Oberlin...
Married. Hope Aldrich Rockefeller, 21, daughter of John D. Rockefeller III, niece of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and John Spencer, 27, son of the late Poet-Professor Theodore Spencer (from 1946-49 holder of Harvard's prestigious Boylston chair of rhetoric and oratory); in Irvington...
...Pole Vaulter Bob Gutowski, world record holder outdoors, vaulted 15ft. but could finish no better than fifth. The winner: Tarzan-like Don Bragg, 24, who tied three challengers at 15 ft. 3½ in., but got first place on the basis of fewer misses...
...Small-Holder Protest. Outside the Cabinet, Castro fought for his law with threats, cajolery and left-wing bombast. "Land reform will not be stopped even if the sky rains spikes," he angrily told the National Newsmen's Association. In the Havana Hilton's glittering banquet room, he pleaded with 1,000 lawyers, once the main supporters of his rebellion but now disturbed and doubtful: "Revolution implies change. An immense majority of the people lack bread." The next night he blustered over TV: "If at some time it is necessary to apply revolutionary justice anew, we will defend...