Word: shearer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eleven yelping Siberian Huskies heard the crack of the whip and the encouraging cries of Driver Bill Shearer: "Pick it up! Pick it up!" The dogs were near the end of the third and decisive race of the New England sled-dog championship at Jaffrey, N.H. last week. More important, they were close to chow time. And then, plunk in the middle of the snowy road, Driver Shearer saw a sight that chilled his spine: a cat, lazily sunning itself...
...Shearer had visions of a snarling, harness-tangled mass of dogs taking off, pellmell, after the cat. It was much too late to stop the straining team. Shearer could only hope that his lead dog, Shamus, true to sled-dog tradition and training, would stay on the beaten path. Shamus did him proud. At the last minute Shamus saw the cat, but swerved resolutely away from temptation, and carried the heads-down pack with him. Shamus' faithful maneuver saved Driver Shearer the title-by a scant minute and 19 seconds. Elapsed time, for three 19-mile races against twelve...
...Hollywood, British Ballerina Moira (The Red Shoes') Shearer told her studio bosses that she was expecting a baby in the summer, would therefore have to step out of her role in the new film Hans Christian Andersen...
When she was picked as the only successful candidate in a group of 15 auditioning for the Sadler's Wells ballet school last week, Heller, nine-year-old daughter of Mary Martin, announced that her new idol was Moira Shearer. Furthermore, she said, "I want to be the greatest ballerina in the world. I don't want to sing and act like my mother...
London ballet fans who argue happily over the relative merits of Sadler's Wells' ballerinas Margot Fonteyn and Moira (The Red Shoes) Shearer, had the rare chance last week to compare both dancers in the same ballet. Moira, ready to dance the lead in Symphonic Variations after a four-month layoff, switched plans just before opening, when one of the two other girl dancers fell ill. Since no one else knew both parts, Moira stepped down to take it; Margot was called in to dance the lead. Said the critics next day: "Moira is taller, more girlish...