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...imported dancing. When Vienna's famed Fanny Elssler danced in Washington nearly a century before, Congress declared itself a holiday. During World War I, Pavlova had packed Manhattan's Hippodrome (on a bill with elephants and Chinese jugglers), went on to make The Dying Swan a synonym for ballet across the nation. Nijinsky had toured the country in 1916, was already a legendary dancer...
15th Century England (The Swan and the Rose, by Francis Leary; A. A. Wyn). The Wars of the Roses, as seen by a well-thewed commoner who allows neither defeat nor the threat of death to budge his Lancastrian allegiance...
Former City Councilors W. Donnison Swan and Chester A. Higley, both CCA-endorsed, were defeated by Morton and Watson...
Sullivan had 3,554 votes. He was closely followed by Mayor Joseph A. DiGuglielmo '29. Next were Edward A. Crano '35, Thomas N. MacNamara, Charles A. Watson, Hyman Pill, Marcus Morton, John J. Foley and W. Donnison Swan...
...week's end Godfrey was in a more mellow mood. He said he had intended to say a lot of nice things about Julius ("a charming rascal") on the swan-song show, but had only about eleven seconds to do it. But, said Godfrey firmly, he was "more proud of this boy" than of any of the youngsters he had made into stars. On that sweet note, the storm blew over, leaving La Rosa to cash in on a million dollars' worth of publicity and kind Father Godfrey to mull an ancient maxim: a doting parent generally deserves...