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When chubby Mrs. Maria Concepcion Lim Planas of Manila read about the U.N.'s appeal for men and arms for the Korean war, she saw her duty clear. It happened, she wrote to the Philippines' President Elpidio Quirino, that she had a lot of war material on her hands, and she would be delighted to contribute it to the U.N.'s cause. The Manila Evening News quickly made a report: Housewife Planas had several depots of "armored cars, trucks, machine guns . . . 1,000 tanks . . . all sorts of field equipment... the biggest pool of war equipment...
...century ago these lyrical sketches of Russian country life were considered an incendiary call for the abolition of Russian serfdom. When the book first appeared in 1852, the czar's advisers strongly warned lim against it. But Alexander II read the book and later admitted that it had indeed helped persuade him to free the serfs...
...first time in U.S. dance history, just about all of the big brains and muscles in modern dance-José Limón, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Hanya Holm-were flexing together in one theater to do it. And all their fervid followers seemed to be on hand to give them palm-pounding support...
...Limón's The Moor's Pavanne-Othello to music by Purcell. Limón had provided swirling and courtly choreography for his three accompanying dancers (representing lago, Desdemona, Emilia). And with his dramatic, high-cheekboned, deep-eyed face and high-voltage gestures, big Mexican-born Dancer Limón himself was superb as the blackly jealous giant...
First, fans saw one of the old masters in an old work: tall, dark-skinned José Limón in Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias. Last week, they saw him again in a smashing new work by the same choreographer. Unlike her Lament, Choreographer Doris Humphrey's new Invention had no story and no characterization; it was pure dance, but with plenty of invention. By the time Limón & Co. (Betty Jones, Ruth Currier) had gotten through its four brief sections (a bright, gay solo, a duo, a meditative slow movement and a powerful recapitulation) they...