Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father of modern ballet music, Léo Delibes (1836-91). Delibes, a musical whiz-kid who was accepted at the Paris Conservatory when he was twelve, became a church organist in his teens, wrote his first stage piece (Two Cents Worth of Coal) at 19. He was a pupil of famed Adolphe (Giselle) Adam, wrote with a symphonic fluidity that made much of the ballet compositions of his contemporaries sound like music for setting-up exercises. In all, he turned out about 20 operettas and operas (including Lakmé) and several ballets (Coppélia and La Source...
Double or Nothing. In Toledo, police considered carefully, finally decided to arrest both Driving Instructor George W. Hall Jr. and Pupil Nellie E. Vasold for reckless driving, after their dual-control car hit a parked automobile...
...hours of the day. To please the taxpayer, the architect must also pay attention to cost-rby cutting down on stairways, waste space, and such traditional gimcracks as Greek columns, Georgian domes and Gothic towers. But most of all, the new school must eliminate restrictions on the pupil. Says Architect Ralph Burkhard, who remembers his own days in Manhattan's prisonlike P.S. 6: "When I design a school, all I think of is making it as different from those jails as possible...
...intelligence services-there would have been no need for them to have maintained such a mass of spies." He was executed, and replaced by Nikolai Yezhov, a madman who carried on the slaughter to the point where millions of Russians were dead or jailed. Yezhov, often styled "the beloved pupil of our leader and teacher Stalin," had his own group of pupils, among them a fat, pallid young man named Georgy Malenkov. After two years in office, Yezhov disappeared. His successor: Lavrenty Beria...
...almost a pauper, the body of the great Russian Dancer Vaslav Nijislcy was quietly exhumed from an unmarked grave in London's Marylebone Cemetery to be reburied beside other artists in the Montmartre Cemetery in Paris. The transfer was a tribute paid by Nijinsky's famous pupil, Dancer Serge Lifar...