Word: martha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Woroner interviewed Middleweights Carmen Basilic and Mickey Walker about the effect that "the slam-bang club fighter tactics of Rocky" would have on "the china chin of the Georgia Deacon." The scene set, Le-Bow then took over to describe the action, pausing now and then to note that Martha Raye and Martin Balsam were in the "audience" or, in the middle of a clinch, to exclaim: "The Rock looks down this way and winks, of all things! If this is all in fun, he had better tell Flowers about it!" Then, as the crowd noise mounted to a frenzy...
...right to live off campus with the roommate of her choice. Linda won that argument, but now it seems that she has given up on stuffy old Barnard altogether, choosing to drop out this fall in favor of communal housekeeping on Manhattan's West Side. Barnard President Martha Peterson, says Linda, has her sympathy. "She is aware that recognizing sexual intercourse would cause embarrassment to the ladies that give money to the college...
...guard down. When Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin relayed the first details to President Johnson, key foreign-policy makers were scattered. Secretary of State Dean Rusk was preoccupied with a summation of Viet Nam policy for the Democratic Party Platform Committee. Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach was vacationing at Martha's Vineyard. U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson had left Moscow for a holiday in Venice that earlier tensions in Prague had delayed. European allies of the U.S. were no better prepared. NATO envoys meeting the next day in Brussels had little more than newspaper reports for guidance. Not a single...
...Ruth St. Denis freed it from its formal strictures and blended it with Indian and other Asian dance forms until she produced something uniquely her own. In 1915, with husband Ted Shawn, she formed the Denishawn School and company, from whose ranks sprang such stars as Doris Humphrey and Martha Graham...
Powell's progress from jazz to the avant-garde followed an improbable path. He married Actress Martha Scott after World War II, then decided to leave the insecure jazz life and settle in Hollywood as a studio pianist for MGM. One of his major assignments was recording backgrounds for Tom and Jerry cartoons. At first, the constant glissandos of cartoon music put blisters on his knuckles, but a fellow studio pianist, Andre Previn, showed him how to play them with a comb. Meanwhile, Powell pursued his studies in serious music. In 1948 he moved east to study composition with...