Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the five-day trial, Tassoula's sister testified that the abducted girl said she had been raped by Constantine in their mountain retreat. "I never told my sister any such story," stormed Tassoula in Athens, where she is awaiting the birth of her child. Testified Constantine: "I promised Tassoula I would not touch her." Anyway, said he, she had a stomachache most of the time...
...Stars & Stripes Forever. Soon after, swathed in her mother's remodeled peach satin and ostrich feather negligée, she made a solo debut as the Glow Worm. Unlike a lot of other dancing moppets who never get beyond the Glow Worm stage, Maria and her younger sister Marjorie (now a principal dancer in the Marques de Cuevas Grand Ballet) stuck to their toe shoes...
...family moved from Oklahoma to Los Angeles when Maria was nine, so that the girls could continue their studies. Maria became a favorite pupil of Bronislava Nijinska, sister of Vaslav Nijinsky. In 1942 she moved East, joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. There she was spotted by Choreographer George Balanchine, who began casting her in his ballets, later married her. When he and Lincoln Kinstein organized the City Center company in 1948, he brought Maria along as prima ballerina. Since then, with Russian-trained Balanchine to supply the polish, she has been shining more brightly each season...
...promoter of many varied enterprises, he managed several semi-pro baseball teams, including the "Boston Tigers," champions of their league many times since 1922. He is survived by a sister, a niece, and other relatives...
...letter had a more personal side. Last year Professor Schlauch's younger sister Helen and Helen's Polish-born husband, a mathematician at the University of Toronto, sold their house in Canada and moved to Warsaw. Her brother-in-law told Margaret last summer that she, too, could have "some kind of post...