Word: martha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MARY ANN'S MUD DAY by Janice May Udry, illustrated by Martha Alexander (Harper & Row; $2.50). This little girl does everything with mud from making simple mud balls to mud mountains and an entire mud village with mud people. She even tries to sell mud. She spends an entire glorious day working with the gunk...
...between studying art at Los Angeles City College and working as an office boy for $8 per week, which, together with the small sums his mother earned by baking pastries at home, enabled them to eke out a living. Then one night he happened in on a performance of Martha Graham's modern-dance company. "It had such a tremendous impact on me that it changed my life," he says. An instant convert, he dropped art, began studying with Lester Horton ("a kind of West Coast Martha Graham"), and danced his way through the 1940s as a member of Horton...
Decked out in dazzling exaggerations of turn-of-the-century elegance, topped off with such hats as dreams are made of, she struts and swaggers new pizazz into the undistinguished material that Carol Channing, Betty Grable, Martha Raye and Ginger Rogers have done so well by. The Bailey way with a wink or a wiggle or a throwaway line is pure pleasure, and the rich, round raunchy Bailey voice can wrap up and deliver anything singable...
...division skipper Martha C. Fransson '68 scored second highest in her division with 128 points. She and crew Hope T. McCurdy '68 took five firsts, three seconds, a third, a fourth, a fifth, and a six. They failed to finish one race...
...them out vividly and strikingly. Here the orchestra received a bit of unplanned assistance from the Cambridge Fire Department. At the end of the Third Bagatelle, the rising wail of the fire siren coincided exactly with the solo 'cello's ascending glissando. It was probably the only time 'cellist Martha Babcock smiled during a concert...