Word: shearer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JEALOUS LOVER pulls out all the heart throbs in a teary story about a British ballet impresario (James Mason) and a dancer with a weak heart (Moira Shearer). This yarn has all the trappings of high romance: shadowy settings, flickering candlelight, crashing music and overwrought passions. But its poetry is buried beneath a heavy load of prosaic moviemaking...
Born. To Moira Shearer, 26, red-haired ballerina (Tales of Hoffmann), and Ludovic Kennedy, 32, wartime Royal Navy lieutenant, author and onetime college librarian: their first child, a daughter; in London. Weight...
Weil-Bred. Romanticized in the novels of Jack London, sled dogs were immortalized after the epic dash to carry diphtheria serum to Nome in 1925. Since then, though the airplane and bulldozer have displaced the Husky as Arctic freight haulers, the Huskies have served man well. Shearer, president of a Boston furniture store, served in World War II, as did many of the other dogsled racers, with the Arctic search & rescue units of the Air Force...
...dogs, black-backed and white underneath, are pure descendants of Leonard Seppala's Siberian Huskies of Nome fame. Shearer has 40 of them, sells about 20 a year, figures he breaks even after taking prize money into account ($3,000 so far this winter). Few drivers ever try to drive eleven dogs. Five can be handled, seven are barely manageable, nine are too many if they once get out of hand. At 45 (barely 5 ft. 10 in., 200 lbs.), Bill Shearer is no longer up to running beside the sled, helping the dogs uphill. He generally rides...
...lead dog, according to Shearer, is 80% of the team. Even though Shamus does not have to pull, he has to break trail, make turns, buck the wind-and even be ready to ignore cats. But in a race, pace is the important thing. "Driving dogs," says Shearer, "is like drinking a bottle of liquor. There's only so much in it. You can either drink it all at once and it's gone, or you can drink it slowly and make it last. One of the things you have to remember is not to go too fast...