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...abalone and prawns. There are some of the best restaurants in the U.S. There are the swinging nightspots of North Beach, where the most popular dance is that variation of the twist called "the Swim," which, until last week at least, was taught at The Condor by an instructress in a topless swimming suit atop the piano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Welcome to Daly City | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

...instructress, one Ellen Keene, told him he showed real promise, and John vowed to win his Arthur Murray bronze medal. All he had to do, after all, was learn the 60 different steps used in the fox trot, swing, tango, waltz, samba, rumba and mambo. After his hundredth hour on the floor, John decided to buy four Arthur Murray life memberships - they only cost $7,650 apiece, and together they guaranteed him 4,000 hours of instruction and after that, eight hours of dancing a month for life. "It's like a kind of insurance," he explained. "Dancing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Patent-Leather Kid | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

Wellesley's Mildred McAfee Horton stressed the importance of dealing with Communism "in the open." To back up her thesis that "students are adept at bursting bubbles," she cited the pre-war case of "a very attractive young Nazi instructress so clearly a pawn in the hands of her mentors that everything she said was torn apart...

Author: By Selig S. Harrison, | Title: Conant Scores Barnes Bill As Harbinger of 'Hysteria' | 2/10/1948 | See Source »

William E. Brown 1E was saved from imminent death in a forced landing at East Boston Airport yesterday afternoon by the skillful flying of his instructress. Gertrude S. Meserve, 19. Brown, oue of Miss Meserve's ten Harvard students, was on a cross-country training flight into northern New England when the undercarriage was Smashed and a wheel torn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Instructress' Skill Saves Self, Student | 1/8/1941 | See Source »

...certainly a "prima ballerina" on Ice. Balletom-anes and and others should be the interested in seeing Miss Honie's interpretation of "Prince igor." Her acting is quite equal to that of the handsome Tyrone Power who plays Prince charming. His Royal Highness meets the skating instructress of an Alpine Hotel (Miss Honie) while both are skilling, the outcome being an international scandal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/6/1937 | See Source »

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