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...netted more than $600.000 beyond expenses. Dollar triumph aside. London was simply glad to have Sadler's Wells back. Usually reserved Covent Gardeners gave them tier upon tier of applause at each solo entrance (in a full-length Sleeping Beauty, all but brought down the venerable house when Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn came...
...Orie L. Phillips of Colorado and John J. Parker of Virginia were considered too old-both will be 68 on the same day, next Nov. 20. New Jersey's Chief Justice Arthur Vanderbilt, 65, was known to be a hard driver, and might have serious trouble with the prima donnas on the high court. That left one name...
Britain's Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, appearing at the University of Leeds for an honorary D. Litt., was happy to call herself "the dancing doctor of letters," but really did not think she was up to the academic honor. Said she: "I am probably the most illiterate of all the ballerinas you have heard...
...which instructs the New York Board of Regents to make a list of subversive organizations, membership in which is prima faole evidence of unfitness to teach, was upheld by the Supreme Court last year...
Collapse & Retreat. Next day, on the Senate floor, Bob Taft rose to give his verdict. Said he: "I could not find anything which seemed to . . . supply any prima facie evidence that Mr. Bohlen had in any way done anything which would make him a bad security risk. The associations he had were those which anyone might have had . . . I could see nothing which could create the most remote guilt-by-association accusation that could be thought of." John Sparkman quickly agreed...