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Said he to his TV audience: "That was Julie's swan song with us. He goes now out on his own, as his own star, soon to be seen in his own program, and I know you wish him Godspeed same as I do. Bye-bye!" Godfrey's abrupt sacking of Crooner La Rosa, which was news to Julius, was also a Page One story to newspapers across the country.* It was quickly made even juicier by the added information that Bandleader Archie Bleyer, 44, a longtime Godfrey regular, had been fired the same day from the daytime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Humble or Nothing | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

Although on the other side of the Atkinson issue, Chester A. Higley and W. Donnison Swan are two councillors worthy of re-election. Swan's financial ability alone, which saves the Council from often fantastic ventures and founds its policies on practicality makes his re-election necessary. Higley's conscientious study of everything at Council meetings, and bis high personal integrity are sound reasons for backing Higley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Men for Cambridge | 10/29/1953 | See Source »

...trespasser was Angler Eisenhower: he was invited to fish the South Platte River on the ranch of a friend, Denver Banker Bal F. Swan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 19, 1953 | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...from a six months' bout with the aftereffects of diphtheria, headed the cast again, and among the lesser stars were Violetta Elvin, Nadia Nerina, Rowena Jackson, Michael Somes and a promising newcomer to the troupe, Svetlana Beriosova. Opening-night number: a full-length version of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, with sparkling new costumes and scenery and changes in the choreography which lengthened the 58-year-old masterpiece to a full four acts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sadler's Return | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

...result, as eye-filling as ever, was an example of what Sadler's Wells likes to do best: the full-length romantic ballet in classical style. The ballet chorus, dressed in autumn colors as peasants, in regal purples and crimsons as court maidens, in severe white as swans, made a gorgeous frame for the principal action. Among the brightest spots: Fonteyn's touching pantomime as the bewitched swan-princess and her vicious precision in her alternate role as the magician's wicked daughter; Dancer Somes's hurtling leaps in the court scene; a new "Neapolitan" duet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sadler's Return | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

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