Word: novas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Count Nova de Tajo, 26, glossy but genuine Spanish count, was arrested as a Nazi spy by the FBI. Among plushy U.S. gullibles, he possessed several assets besides his liquid eyes. The Duke of Alba is his cousin, Columbus was his reputed ancestor. He is the husband of Powers Model Wilma Baard, barge captain's full-fashioned daughter who was launched in society in 1938 by such sponsors as Lucius Beebe and Cartoonist Peter Arno. According to the FBI, she never knew that the count was 1) unsuccessfully delving into U.S. war production, 2) unsuccessfully trying to feel...
...likes to go to prize fights, and swears he could tell, from the way Joe Louis was sweating the night he entered the ring against Billy Conn, that the champion was in poor shape and would have trouble winning. And he correctly guessed that Joe Louis would torpedo Lou Nova in the sixth round. Baruch watches all human affairs with his speculator's eye, studying the form, trying to guess the result. And when he is sure, he plunges, with the audacity and icy conviction of a big-time speculator...
...ballerina . alive. Only the cautious conservatism of ballet's experts keeps her from being hailed unreservedly as a ballerina assoluta, a rank in the choric hierarchy attained in recent generations only by Marie Taglioni and the late great Anna Pavlova. Well above a mime dansante (like Irina Baro-nova), immeasurably superior to a soubrette (Zorina's rating), Alicia Markova has attained to the category danseuse noble, and she may get to be a ballerina assoluta yet. She has a combination of flawless classical technique and an ability to project emotion that bowls over even the uninitiates...
Next of Kin (Alexander Field, Phyllis Stanley, Nova Pilbeam, Lieut. Colonel Stephen Murray, R.A.C.S.; TIME, April...
George Kenney was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 53 years ago. His parents were Americans whose vacation he spoiled by arriving a week early. His expatriate birth was in the tradition of his mother's family: she had been born on shipboard on the Atlantic and one of her sisters had been born in Sweden...