Word: ilsa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ILSA R. KATZ...
...opening folk-music dances were saved from the uninspired musical background and the below-average chorus work by the brilliance of Eric Lessinger's ballet dancing. Together with Ilsa Koretsky, he exhibited impressive technical ability, and his portrayal of God in "The Creation" awed the entire audience...
...lion's endurance-and a teen-ager's superstition about a good-luck plastic frog, which she solemnly stations by her starting block before a race. Her challengers: Australia's Dawn Fraser, 22, an octogenarian by swimming standards, and the slumping, doubt-ridden Ilsa Konrads, the 16-year-old kid sister of John. World Record Holder Fraser will be the favorite in the 100 meters (her main threat: Chris von Saltza), and a dark horse in the 100-meter butterfly, thereby stands an outside chance of winning three gold medals on her own, plus a fourth...
...history, lowered her American record for the 100 meters by .3 sec. with a trial heat time of 1:01.3, coasted home to win the finals in 1:02.5. Then, in the grueling 400 meters she knocked .9 sec. off the world's record of Australia's Ilsa Konrads, 16, with the time...
...week belonged to Dawn. Mounting the starting blocks with Ilsa in the 440, dark-haired Dawn waggled her broad shoulders and cracked: "Anyone for a swim?" Then she loafed along behind Ilsa for seven of the eight laps before uncorking a demoralizing finishing sprint to win easily in 4:47.4. The race completely undermined Ilsa's hitherto calm confidence ("She's scared of Dawn," confided Coach Don Talbot), turned Dawn into a worldbeater. In the 110-yd. butterfly, a stroke she had taken up only recently to freshen her interest in swimming, Dawn clocked 1:10.8 to slice...