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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prime & Proportion. In brown-eyed, British-born Margot Fonteyn, Sadler's Wells had its coloratura. Her perfectly proportioned ballerina body (5 ft. 4 in., 112 Ibs.), her effortless grace and technique had U.S. ballet connoisseurs and critics going back for comparisons to such ballet immortals as Anna Pavlova, Olga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Coloratura on Tiptoe | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

When Margaret (having changed her first name to Margot) made her London debut at 14 as one of the 32 snowflakes in The Nutcracker, more experienced Sadler's Wellsians laughed at the serious little girl who spent half an hour in the wings, warming up for a five-minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Coloratura on Tiptoe | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

At home, she is the kind of girl of whom one friend says: "She could fill Covent Garden every night in the week for a year, but she could walk through Picadilly Circus with a neon light around her head without one person saying, "There goes Margot Fonteyn.' " She...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Coloratura on Tiptoe | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Merrill, a Mississippian who moved back home to Natchez on his retirement in 1947, announced that if he could raise enough money to keep the school from foundering and increase its enrollment, he would be glad to take the job of skipper. Moreover, he knew just what he wanted the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Example in Natchez | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

At the Sigma Chi house disgruntled brothers held a mock liquidation sale (see cut) in which most of the bottles were empties. The Daily Californian complained that the new rule "will mean a whole bottle instead of a drink. We'll just have to do our drinking parked up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Mourning | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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