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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Night after night the Met was packed to the fire-limit (for an alltime record ballet box-office gross of $256,000). In four weeks, Margot Fonteyn and Sadler's Wells had restored as much glitter to Britain's tarnished tiara as any mission the English had sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Coloratura on Tiptoe | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Castles & Caves. U.S. ballet fans, awaiting the arrival of the English company, had been eager to see Sadler's Wells' modern English ballets-with choreography by De Valois, Helpmann and Frederick Ashton. Among the best of these were De Valois' animated chess game, Checkmate, her Rake'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Coloratura on Tiptoe | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Petite, retiring Helen Hokinson wore her greying hair in bangs, had a conservative, un-Hokinsonian taste in hats and clothes. But she disowned the title of satirist. Insisted Miss Hokinson: "I see no reason for people to regard my ladies superciliously ... I [have always] considered them bright, sensible people and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Hokinson Girls | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Lord Kemsley's unsexy, unsensational Sunday Times (circ. 521,000) rushed to defend its more wayward and widely read sisters: "Is it not time that those who . . . make such attacks should . . . particularize the journals which they wish to pillory?" It was true, as the Sunday Times said, that not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mirrors of Life | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

As a result, concluded Dr. Leonard W. Parkhurst, the clinic's medical director, many businessmen "need the advice of psychiatrists to convince them that they must ... be boss of their jobs, not slaves to those jobs." In one group of 63 tested at the clinic, 80% needed medical, surgical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: All Work | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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