Word: swanning
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...boards. They formed a troika (with three girls acting as horses), chains, arrows and everything but the hammer & sickle. Most impressive was a number in which 16 girls dressed in silk-embroidered costumes executed parade-ground drills with a precision to rival the Rockettes. There was also a complicated swan dance with each girl holding up a hand to resemble a swan's head, on each hand a ring resembling the eye of a swan...
...boss of the Greyhound Corp., Orville Swan Caesar, 61, heads the biggest transportation system in the world (10.6 billion passenger-miles traveled last year). But he is still not satisfied. Last week he announced "the start of a new era," ushered in by a new bus. Next month the first of 500 Scenicruisers, costing $25 million, will start rolling off the line at General Motors Corp. and go into service between New York and Miami...
...that he will not immediately accept a peerage but will hold onto his Commons seat for a while to speak out and act the role of elder statesman and, when occasion merits, the sage scold. Said one very close to him: "He will want to deliver at least six swan songs...
...Sunset Island No. I in Miami's yacht-clogged Biscayne Bay, Marianne Reynolds, who got $2,000,000 and a divorce in 1952 from Tobacco Heir Richard J. Reynolds Jr., sang a $35,000 swan song. Soon off to luxuriate in California, Marianne said farewell to Florida in the style to which Reynolds had accustomed her. Under the bleak gaze of ten gate-guarding cops, 160 servants, two firemen and some 15 dinner-jacketed plainclothesmen who mingled but did not fraternize, about 300 guests jammed for warmth (evening temperature: 48°) into two satin-draped tents pitched on Marianne...
...Elephants trundled off with four of the class crowns. The 147 pound title remained with defending champion Bill Schoeberein as he felled Winthrop's Lloyd Aiello in three minutes flat. Henry Ziegler also won by a fall in defeating Kirkland's Bob Swan for the 167 pound title. The remaining two crowns went to Noel Scullin at 177 and Tim Anderson at the unlimited weight, who won by falls from Adams' Mel Ingalls and Lou LeFevre of Winthrop...