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...another northern tier to this sort of first-hand regional coverage, White on his latest trip signed on new stringers to report to TIME from Churchill, The Pas, Grande Prairie, Whitehorse, Prince George and Fort William. These bring the number of part-time correspondents (in addition to TIME'S three full-time bureaus in Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal) to an all-time high...
...company is led by the well-known stars Nora Kaye and John Kriza and consists of 14 dancers drawn from the corps of the Ballet Theatre. The program up to last night included Pas de Deesses, Pas de Deux from Coppelia, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Interplay. Selections scheduled for the rest of the week are Designs With Strings, The Combat, Pas de Deux from Swan Lake, and Fancy Free (choreographed by Jerome Robbins and set to music by Leonard Bernstein...
...first half of the Monday-Wednesday program was not so impressive as the second, since it included two very traditional and flowery numbers. Pas des Deesses was choreographed by Robert Joffrey, a young and talented dance creator who in this instance failed to get his message across. The ballet could have been very funny, since Joffrey took the standard set-up of one male and three girls--starting off together, then each little ballerina getting her chance to dance alone with the man, and finally the latter liking his three girls so much that he keeps them all--and apparently...
...next number was the traditional Pas de Deux, this time from the third act of Coppelia. Intended to give the prima ballerina and danseur noble a chance to demonstrate their technical virtuosity, it succeeded only in showing that Miss Kaye and Kriza, though excellent dancers are not suited for such restraining numbers...
...Dividends. Though it survived the war, unlike 50% of Japan's 132 dailies, General MacArthur soon divorced the paper from government control, ordered all Times stock to be sold to its employees. The Times seldom massacres its chosen language, thanks to crack translators. Most of its memorable faux pas have been perpetrated by foreign-born journalists who know little of Japanese customs. Readers still chuckle over a story written for the Times by an American woman who dined unwittingly at Tokyo's most notorious whorehouse, burbled at artless length in the paper about the "attractive girls...