Word: swing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like her Uncle David, the Duke of Windsor, Elizabeth loves horses (she rides superbly), racing (if possible, she never misses a race when the royal stable is entered), swing music, nightclubs, and having her own way. But Elizabeth's rebellions are those of any headstrong, well-reared child suffering an overdose of family. "I'd like a car of my own," she told a friend recently, "but there's so damn much family talk about which make I must have that I don't think I'll ever get one." Her greatest insubordination to date...
Bolles brought the Washington system to the Charles, one he learned from Callow, who in turn coached under the crew-great Hiram Conibear. Reluctantly, Bolles has tried to summarize the system for the layman. "Our stroke is a short body swing," he says; but he adds that the shortness is only relative to length used by oarsmen such as those at Syracuse...
...months ago the Chinese Cultural Theater Group of Shanghai began a goodwill tour of the U.S. (they have already played San Francisco and Chicago, will next swing through the South) on a financial shoestring. The company left China with only $37,500 in cash and props, is now down to a daily food allotment of $3 apiece-in Manhattan. The one-night Broadway stand did not up the kitty much: a heavy sleet storm kept the house down. But those who came stayed awake...
With opening night less than two weeks away, Hasty Pudding Club theatrical rehearsals are in full swing for "Speak For yourself," its first full production since before the war. Opening for four nights at the Club on March 25, the show will go on a five city tour during vacation, returning for a final three-night home stand on April...
...Argentine expansion. By capitalizing on the current hatred of Peron, the United States would throttle the latent belief that American interest in South America is built around nothing but the dollar sign and put a few needed teeth into its plan for hermispheric solidarity. If Argentina is allowed to swing its economic axe, unfettered Latin-Americans can hope for nothing better than the crumbs from Peron's vest...