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...TIME'S intention was not to criticize the frequent lower-case spelling of Diesel but to spotlight the fact that the name of the engine had eclipsed the name of the man. Some other scientific words (besides watt and ampere) from the names of great pioneers: ohm, coulomb, gauss, henry, maxwell, gilbert, volt (from Volta), galvanize (from Galvani...
...coryphees were wildly out of step with one another and with the music. The men wore tights, jackets and bow ties which looked like three-a-day vaudeville. The prima ballerinas, apparently a haughty Italian, a frizzy-headed Frenchwoman, an intense Russian, wobbled in their pirouettes, fought for the spotlight, mugged and ogled. It was like an off night, and a dreadful one, in the Russian ballet. The audience roared. It was meant to. The ballet was Gala Performance (choreography by Antony Tudor), a new act presented by the young, immensely talented Ballet Theatre...
Iceman Uline's Washington Arena was bigger news than his first show. The show's biggest hit was Red McCarthy who, wearing a skin-tight silver suit, streaked around the rink in a red spotlight. On opening night featured Belita Turner, appearing as a harem dancer, fell flat on her stomach...
...this point, with G-Man J. Edgar Hoover rather red around the ears, FBI took over from the F. B. I., jailed Crandall and Haynes, turned off the spotlight...
...woman, in black tights shingled with iridescent spangles, which made them look like Japanese beetles, huddled in the spotlight on the dim stage. The woman and one of the men began to posture in a slow dance. The other man inserted himself between the couple, reared up impassively, slithered like Bill the Lizard down the male back to the floor. That over, the three handed around arms and legs with poised abandon. In the pit, the orchestra sounded tentative about what sounds it would make next, a little anxious about what it would hear next from the solo violinist...