Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already adopted her mother's maiden name ("Who could dance with a name like Hookham?"), still later changed Fontes to Fonteyn (pronounced Fontaine). She worked with Markova in ballet after ballet, studying her technique, watching every motion and emotion...
Piccadilly by Neon. Even now that she has reached a pinnacle of perfection at 30, Margot is still seriously studious. Even after tough evening performances like Sleeping Beauty or Swan Lake she rarely misses the ritual of morning class, where she stretches at the bar like the other dancers. She is completely unaffected-a quality which helps set the atmosphere backstage. Explains Frederick Ashton: "When the prima ballerina doesn't put on airs, obviously anyone else trying to would only look ludicrous...
...Jefferson Military College near Natchez, Miss., the money was still rolling in. It came, largely in five-and ten-dollar bills, from people all over the U.S. who wrote to applaud the 147-year-old prep school for turning down Oilman George W. Armstrong's proposed endowment with a crackpot list of "white supremacy" strings attached (TIME, Nov. 7). Last week, with $9,314 in the till from well-wishers, Jefferson had enlisted a special fundraiser. He was Vice Admiral Aaron Stanton ("Tip") Merrill, a Pacific task force commander in World War II and onetime chief of Navy public...
Most notable fact of all: Cooper Union's 1,400 students (chosen by stiff competitive exams which eliminate five out of six applicants) still got their tuition, as the founder intended, free of charge...
...editor was still grey-haired Richard J. Finnegan, 65, onetime publisher of the Times, but in the day-to-day job of putting out the paper, Marsh Field would make the decisions from now on. As one of the first changes in the new regime, veteran Managing Editor Marvin McCarthy, who did not agree with Field on how the news should be played, resigned. Into his shoes stepped a man with whom Marsh Field sees eye to eye-Milburn P. Akers, 49, Sun-Times political columnist and executive...