Word: olympia
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...most unforgettable of all Olympians: Finland's Paavo Nurmi, now 55, and in his Olympic days (1920-28) the greatest distance runner in the world. Stopping at the base of the giant urn, Nurmi stretched high to set it ablaze with fire relayed across Europe from Olympia. The 1952 Olympics had begun...
...Speech. In the afternoon, he saw most of the Michigan delegation, later delegates from Indiana and Ike fans from Bob Taft's own Ohio. Then after dinner, he drove to Detroit's Olympia Stadium for the big speech...
Werner W. Jaeger, University Professor, will visit Greece this summer, stopping enroute-in France, Germany, and Italy. Jaeger plans to see Athens, Delhi, Olympia, Crete and other excavation sites and places of historical interest. He said last night that the trip is solely for pleasure and will be his first opportunity to see the country which he has studied as a classical scholar...
...Navy, but he must have sailed under false colors-there is no record of an enlistment under his real name. Then, said Demara Sr., Fred went over the hill, and began a varied and fantastic career. He taught philosophy at St. Martin's College (enrollment: 277) in Olympia, Wash. He was reported in Los Angeles as "Dr. French." He spent a year at the Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary as an orderly, shuffling dinner trays and bedpans, under the name of Cecil Boyce Hamann (actually the name of a science professor at Asbury College in Kentucky...
Despite such voices as Robert Rounseville's in the title role, the impeccable playing of Sir Thomas Beecham and the Royal Philharmonic, and a charming first act in which Moira (The Red Shoes] Shearer dances as Olympia, the lifelike doll, the bulk of the picture is slow, obscure and pretentious. The script and direction, which borrow from Dali, Cocteau and Cecil B. DeMille, compound the vague symbolism of the Offenbach opera, leave the story line frayed and dangling. Whenever they are audible in the upper operatic range, the English lyrics sound banal. And the much-touted spectacle of Tales...