Word: swans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appointment of William D. Swan, Jr. '45, of Cambridge and Holworthy, as Freshman Hockey Manager was announced last night. No assistant manager was appointed, though the competition was reported as "very close...
...Swan will take the University team to Yale alone this year. Other Yardlings who entered the 'competition were Warren Burroughs, Sumner Feldberg, Kenneth Moller, and Josiah Richmond...
Sculptor Maillol has devoted his entire life to a single subject: the full-blown bodies of naked women. Only three or four times has he sculpted a man; never an animal. When he did Leda and the Swan, he left the swan out and concentrated on Leda. His sculptures seldom tell a story, never illustrate any high-flown saw or slogan. But his placid, broad-hipped, female torsos, mountainously solid, yet so graceful that they seem about to move, have been the envy and despair of fellow sculptors all over the world...
Cast as Europe's ace ballerina (one Lina Varsavina), Loretta limps bravely through one dying-swan triumph after another. She neither looks, acts nor walks like a ballerina, but in sequences which permit her to be more or less herself she performs ably...
...floor room of the Kremlin. Often last week, as in other weeks, they burned until four or five in the morning. Joseph Stalin was studying the greatest battle in history. One night the ballet season came to Moscow. A great Moscow crowd applauded the lyricism of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. But this year it was not for Joseph Stalin, who loves the ballet. He was absorbed with the most crucial reflections and decisions of his life. And now with a British mission in Moscow and a U.S. mission on the way, Occidentals caught occasional glimpses of the Dictator, learned...