Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poured money into everything from Basic English to the Berkshire Music Festival, from "studies of the aurora borealis in Alaska to measurements of the velocity of light in California" and the 200-inch telescope on Palomar Mountain. Its fellowship programs have been a gigantic "gamble on talent" that have included such excellent bets as Enrico Fermi, Ernest O. Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, Ralph Bunche, Historian Arnold Toynbee (for a future book on international relations), Lord Beveridge, scores of young writers, hundreds of refugee scholars-even Dr. Kinsey...
Relaxed Hillbilly. A week later, Andy and Dave celebrated by getting married. The appropriate place was Davos, scene of Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, where Dave had learned his skiing as a youngster. Their honeymoon included a trip West last summer, where Andy stayed in ski shape by heaving huge grain sacks, breaking a mare, and cooking chow for all hands at a Porcupine Gulch (Wyo.) ranch. Andy's admiring father-in-law, Laudy Lawrence, retired European manager for MGM, calls her a "regular hillbilly...
...skiing accident while practicing at Alta, Utah. * Grandson of Millionaire Thomas Fortune Ryan. * Estimated chances against a break: about 800 to 1. *Glamorous blende Dagmar, winner of both F.I.S. slalom titles in 1950, has made two movies, and has reportedly "gone Hollywood." Austrians says: "She is no longer a mountain girl...
...saucy Musetta in La Bohème, she was gay in her waltz song, movingly sympathetic with the dying Mimi in the last act. Last week she sang her first Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro. Her tone, as ever, was as pure and clear as a mountain stream; her coloratura was as neat as needlepoint. A singing actress who loves "to play on the stage"-and has found that she can at the Met-she made Susanna a maid any Figaro would fall...
Delicate Fireworks. The best of the three is Jean Stafford's The Catherine Wheel. In two previous books, Boston Adventure and The Mountain Lion (TIME, Jan. 22, 1945 & March 10, 1947), Novelist Stafford failed in her themes but established herself as probably the best young prose writer in the U.S. In her new book, the manner is still fine, but the matter is thinner than ever. The heroine of The Catherine Wheel is Katharine Congreve, rich, lovely, kind and altogether admirable. Her problem is a not uncommon one, in or out of fiction: in her late 30s and unmarried...