Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening a fortnight ago a tall, slim, sandy-haired man in street clothes sat on a desk in the wings of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House and watched the Sadler's Wells Ballet performance of Apparitions. From time to time, when she wasn't on stage, prima ballerina Margot Fonteyn came over to talk to him. TIME's Chandler Thomas, having sat through five performances of different ballets out front, wanted to see how ballet looked from backstage. He was getting ready for this week's cover story on Miss Fonteyn...
...only people in Indonesia who were really contented were the soldiers of the Dutch army, who had been conscripted for unpopular service in a steaming, tropical land. Last week the sides of Dutch army trucks, filled with tall blond soldiers, bore chalked signs like: Tabeh, we gaan de rommel verlaten (Goodbye, we're pulling out of this mess) and Doe het self maar verder. Gaan naar moeder (Do it yourself. We're going home to mother...
After studying at Virginia's Union Theological Seminary, he was ordained a Presbyterian minister. Last week Albert Johnstone accepted his first call-to nearby Ashland Presbyterian Church. Said the tall Rev. Mr. Johnstone: "I plan to do the best...
Last week Tussaud's was shaken; their reputation for accuracy was at stake; if Stalin was too tall, they stood prepared to cut him down. Said Randolph Churchill, wartime liaison officer with Yugoslav guerrillas, "Having seen both Tito and Stalin, I would have no hesitation in asserting that Stalin is several inches shorter than Tito-and is certainly in no position to go around calling him a dwarf...
...Sensato is a pensive Argentine comic-strip character who specializes in simple solutions for everyday problems. Last week, while Buenos Aires was agog at the size of the visiting Phillips Oilers basketball team (Center Bob Kurland is 7-ft. tall), Don Sensato had this to say: "It occurs to me that the only way to win from .. . the tall ones ... is to play...