Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Balanchine well remembers the Baltic steamer ride from Russia. Many passengers were seasick, and the hungry dancers, who included Tamara Geva and Alexandra Danilova, had plenty of food for the first time in years. "I think maybe we were seasick too," says Balanchine, "but we ate anyway." The ballet world remembers the trip because it was part of ballet's great westward movement. Like many other Russian tourists in those days, Balanchine & Co. finally got a telegram: return at once or be punished. Says Balanchine: "If we went back, we would be punished anyhow-no food." He never went...
...great, even a fabulous personality. Just look at that life beaming from your cover portrait. But her paintings are trash. The boys in the galleries are having great fun cashing in on a lucky winner, while the "discriminating" collectors have nothing to lose but a few greenbacks for the ride. She is a sweet old lady, as you say, whom "no one could possibly have invtented" therefore that much more have in commercializable on a jaded, novelty-hungry public...
Juan Peron has been like a generous rich uncle to the members of Buenos Aires' High-School Girls' Union. Since he first started teaching them to ride motorcycles at his presidential quinta in suburban Olivos last August, he has hardly let a day pass without some kindness. Recently he gave the union the rambling old presidential palace on downtown Calle Suipacha-unused since President Ramon Castillo's overthrow in 1943-for a clubhouse. To notable girl athletes he gives a standard present: a plastic vanity case with $36 inside...
...Tschiffely, 58, Swiss-born British schoolmaster who emigrated to Argentina, won fame and fortune after he made a 10,000-mile trip on horseback from Buenos Aires to Washington, D.C. (1925-28), wrote two widely read accounts of his feat (From Southern Cross to Pole Star, Tschiffely's Ride); after an operation; in London...
...done with. It bursts all right. Before the day and night are over, the young toughs have commandeered the tavern, wrecked a beauty parlor, broken into the jail, kidnaped and terrorized a young girl (Mary Murphy), and (although by accident) killed an old man. In the end, they ride off with no worse than a severe tongue-lashing from a county sheriff...