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After attending Furry's hearing with senator McCarthy's one-man investigating committee on Jan. 16, Thomas H. Bresnahan, commission counsel, said that if Furry and Kamin refused to tell the Massachusetts Commission the names of communists known to them and yet did not invoke the fifth amendment, under which witnesses may refuse to testify on the grounds of possible self-incrimination they would be reported to the state legislature for contempt action...
...such famed members as Michel (Petroushka) Fokine, Vaslav (Afternoon of a Faun) Nijinsky, Leonide (Boutique Fantasque) Massine, Bronislava (Les Noces) Nijinska. For the most part, in their choreography, they had developed luxuriant numbers flush with gestures, elaborate costumes and scenery. With Diaghilev's blessing. Balanchine launched a one-man revolution of the right: he went back to severe, classic principles. Instead of involved, fairy-tale plots, he shaved his storylines down to wisps of familiar, ancient legends. Thus began his continuing battle to reduce ballet to its fundamentals: the dance itself...
...when the young painter with talent is more often than not won over by the forces of abstract or non-objective art, it is an increasingly rare pleasure to run across a new artist who has talent and an interest in portraiture at the same time. In his first one-man show at the Behn-Moore Gallery, Barrie Cooke shows that he has both...
...Founder Pulitzer created the paper's vigorous spirit, it was the paper's longtime (1908-38) Managing Editor O. K. (for Oliver Kirby) Bovard who translated the spirit into a day-to-day newspaper. A whip-cracking taskmaster, he was known in the trade as a "one-man school of journalism" or the "greatest managing editor of all time." On the day he became city editor, Bovard was congratulated by one of his friends on the staff who made the mistake of addressing Bovard by his nickname, "Jack." Answered the new city editor frostily: "From now on, Harry...