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knneth Murdock'16. Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, will lecture on American literature and thought in Scandinavian universities during the first half of 1946, it was announced this week. The American-Scandinavian Foundation made the appointment...
From the Pacific, where famed Correspondent Ernie Pyle died and Editor Lee Miller flopped as his successor, came another Scripps-Howard by-line-that of the diminutive, dandified boss himself, Roy W. Howard. He had left his red, Chinese-style office in Manhattan and gone forth to battle. Last week, on a carrier off Japan, he was taking another of his periodic flings at reporting...
Major General Claire Lee Chennault, 54, genius of U.S. air power in China, quit his job last week. In Kunming he announced that he had resigned as commander of the Fourteenth U.S. Army Air Force. He said he planned to retire from the Army and return...
Glossy-haired, 46-year-old Dancer-Choreographer Massine, a veteran of at least six richly endowed ballet companies, knows where the money goes. Instead of the orthodox company of 30 or 40, he has just six capable dancers - Irina Baronova, Andre Eglevsky, Rosella Hightower, Yurek Lazowsky, Kathryn Lee, Anna Istomina -trained to perform in quick succession the twelve to 16 short ballets he will crowd into each program. In a pre-tour show at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium last week, the Highlights company danced against a black backdrop; in Montreal, where the audience surrounded the platform, the decor consisted...
Massine booked half of the road performances in open-air stadiums where the potential box office exceeds $10,000. (Just to be on the safe side, he also took in as business partner Y. D. Scales, a Fort Worth auto dealer, whose daughter, pert Kathryn Lee, a musicomedy dancer, wanted to be a highbrow ballerina.) Said Massine, flushed with the opening success of Highlights: "My conception of repertoire is the same as that of chamber music in relation to symphony. ... I feel I am restoring some of the basic elements of Russian ballet. . . . Today ballet has become, with big companies...