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Died. John Cranko, 45, reigning master of full-length story ballet; apparently of a heart attack; while flying from Philadelphia to Stuttgart. Born in South Africa, Cranko came to London at the age of 19; by the time he was 24 he had become principal choreographer of the Sadler's Wells Ballet. In 1961 he took over the mediocre Stuttgart Ballet. With his strong sense of theater and his ability to marry dance and plot, Cranko scored dramatic successes with such works as Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake and Eugene Onegin. The Stuttgart, under his direction, became...
...Sleeping Beauty ballet was introduced to America in 1916 by Pavlova in an Orientally ostentatious production that promptly sank into obscurity. It was not until Margot Fonteyn and the Sadler's Wells company brought the work back in 1949 in a performance of pristine elegance that Tchaikovsky's Beauty emerged as the belle of the ballet. Now, fitted out with new staging and choreography by Rudolf Nureyev, and preening in an elaborate wardrobe of costumes and sets, the National Ballet of Canada's new Sleeping Beauty is on display at the Metropolitan Opera. It is a stunning...
...PAUL SADLER...
Special Forces Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler made a quarter-of-a-million dollars within three months by writing that paean, The Ballad of the Green Berets, one of the big song hits of the gung-ho days of 1966. Sadler himself stayed on with the Green Berets for 18 months, then took a discharge and set out to scale the heights of folk music. He never quite made it. "I went broke three times," Sadler laments. "I just didn't have the knack of keeping money." Today he is vice president of an auto-battery firm...
Some executives are worried that the present sluggishness in campus hiring may mean trouble for their companies in the future. "We will find out ten years from now that there is no one to fill the managerial ranks," predicts Monroe Sadler, Du Font's development chief. Dennis Ryan, placement director of Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, adds: "The recruitment people know that this will create an air bubble in the pipeline five or ten years from now. But the personnel manager cannot get that message upstairs...