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...rummage sale is a well-entrenched church institution, and few people know more about it than Sylvia McDaniel. 63, who helps to run a "next-to-new shop" in Springfield, Mo. With her help, Springfield's Christ Church (Episcopal) has raised funds with rummage sales for 25 years. In the Episcopal weekly, The Living Church, not long ago, Rummager McDaniel let readers in on some trade secrets. Items...
Died. E. (for Estelle) Sylvia Pankhurst, 78, fire-breathing feminist and daughter of Britain's pioneering Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst; of a heart attack; in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Along with her mother and late sister Christabel, Sylvia invoked violence in the fight for women's suffrage between 1903 and 1918, led her militant followers in rock-tossing sorties against the Houses of Parliament, assaults upon 10 Downing Street. She landed in prison at least 15 times, went on hunger strikes to get out, promptly got tossed back into a cell as soon as her strength returned. After Britain...
Promoted to features editor, Templeton brightened the Star's travel, gardening and real estate sections-and even spruced up the church page. He still goes to church himself, but irregularly. He also has a new wife: CBC Thrush Sylvia Murphy, a divorcee whom he married 19 months ago. As news boss, ex-Evangelist Templeton has set a high goal for the Star: "We are not after sensation. We want to make the Star the most responsible and brightest newspaper in Canada...
...Writer Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777-1843) describing the love of a water sprite for a mortal.* Although it bore all the marks of Ashton's familiarly gentle, classically oriented manner, it discarded the classical ballet conventions that appear in such Ashton successes as Cinderella and Sylvia. What he was trying to suggest, says Ashton, was "the ebb and flow of the sea: I aimed at an unbroken continuity of dance, which would remove the distinction between aria and recitative." As a result, Ondine offered few pyrotechnics, gained its effects instead through sinuous mass movements in which...
...fingers the leg action of a chicken scratching the ground. Despite such difficulties (experts figure that not one harpsichord player in a hundred had his Schnellen properly under control), the U.S. is in the grip of a major harpsichord boom, fostered by such players as Ralph Kirkpatrick, Sylvia Marlowe, Fernando Valenti and the late great Wanda Landowska...