Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Private Hill went over the hill. He put on one of the costumes he used as a female impersonator, lit out for London and a magician's job. Billed as "Donna Delbert, the Female Fire-Eater," Hill toured music halls up & down Britain for four years, until one evening in 1947, when he met pretty, 28-year-old Betty Ardoino in an Islington...
After three months of woman-to-woman friendship, Betty recalled in London's Sunday Pictorial, "Donna asked me if I would like to share the digs. I agreed. I watched her unpack. Donna had exquisite transparent cami-knickers, little lace panties, corsets, lots of nylons. We talked for a time. Then Donna gave me my first shock. She asked: 'Would you mind if I smoked a pipe...
Burra's fifth one-man show, opening in London's Leicester Galleries last week. made suitably weird use of such source materials. His thick-painted water colors ("I mix my paints with spit, mostly") represent public places from Mexico City and Harlem to Limerick and Toulon, all swarming with grinning monsters from every age. Peering happily at one representative specimen, the pale little painter with the pointed nose giggled: "Isn't that horrible? It gives me a turn. I thoroughly like...
Sixty of the absentees are members of Crimson crews, which are training on the Thames River near New London, Connecticut, for the races there against Yale on Friday, June 24. The remaining handful have been permitted to take their exams away because they have been able to persuade Registrar Kennedy that they have very special reasons for doing...
...general rule an exam in a certain subject given away must start at precisely the same moment as the same exam begins in Cambridge. For this reason crew coach Tom Bolles, who is in charge of proctoring finals in 30 subjects for his charges in New London, has had to build his whole practice program around the exam schedule, planning rowing only early in the morning and late in the afternoon...