Word: sylvia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SYLVIA R. LEFF...
...wage an all-out campaign. His family can match the Kennedys in looks if not in numbers, and probably surpass them as entertainers (Wife Eve was once a $1,000-a-week cafe-society chanteuse. Son Jim is a semiprofessional guitarist and folk singer, and Daughter-in-Law Sylvia an accomplished pianist...
...second officer on the cruiser Mysore, India's flagship; he had an excellent World War II record, ranging from convoy duty on the Murmansk run to the Anzio landing on the Italian coast; he had a comfortable home in Bombay, and his 28-year-old English wife, Sylvia, had borne him three attractive children. Nanavati was a good bet to become commander in chief of the Indian navy...
...last spring, Kavas Nanavati asked his wife a dangerous question: Why was she acting so cold toward him? Sylvia confessed that she was having an affair with a Bombay businessman named Prem Ahuja. After a painful discussion, Nanavati drove to his ship in Bombay harbor, checked out a .38 service revolver from the Mysore's armory. His next stop was the apartment of Philanderer Ahuja, whom he surprised as he was stepping from his bath. In a struggle over the gun, according to Nanavati, he shot Ahuja three times and killed him. Nanavati then surrendered himself to the Indian...
...years Choreographer Ashton had worked mostly with Margot Fonteyn's classical, dramatic talents in mind (she is semi-retired). In La Fille, noted London critics, he had done something different-"an open-air, sunlit ballet as perfect of its kind as the moonlit Sylvia or Ondine or the chandeliered La Valse." But the enthusiastic response did not alter Ashton's gloomy estimate of the ballet public. "I feel," said he, "that most people still think choreography is something to do with the feet-like chiropody...