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Britain's Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, appearing at the University of Leeds for an honorary D. Litt., was happy to call herself "the dancing doctor of letters," but really did not think she was up to the academic honor. Said she: "I am probably the most illiterate of all the ballerinas you have heard...
London's Covent Garden exploded with applause at the first appearance in six months of Britain's Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn. An attack of diphtheria last October had left strange complications. Her legs and arms were numb and nerveless. In January she said: "At the moment, I can't do even the easiest dance." By last week she felt ready to appear in the undemanding ballet Apparitions, and summoned her oldest friends to rally round. Instead of a few friendly faces, she drew a capacity audience of some 2,000 which gave Margot 14 curtain calls...
Despising them as misfits on life's remainder counter, Hardcaster nonetheless loads them up with atrocity yarns and heroic bilge till they glow with vicarious martyrdom. In but not of the circle of worshippers is a rather decent couple, Victor and Margot Stamp, who keep turning up like good pennies. Victor is a down & cut Australian painter who has sunk to faking Van Goghs in an Old Masters "factory." Margot, his common-law wife, is a girl with a one-tract mind-not the Communist Manifesto but Victor's welfare. But Victor's Marxist pals have little...
Other incoming officers are Margot Sproul '53. Vice-President: Joan Avery 54. Secretary; and Joanne Bailey '54, Treasure...
Radcliffe's Student Council has hosen Margot Ravage '55 as editor of the "Redbook" for next fall, it was announced last night...