Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baltic steamer ride from Russia. Many passengers were seasick, and the hungry dancers, who included Tamara Geva and Alexandra Danilova, had plenty of food for the first time in years. "I think maybe we were seasick too," says Balanchine, "but we ate anyway." The ballet world remembers the trip because it was part of ballet's great westward movement. Like many other Russian tourists in those days, Balanchine & Co. finally got a telegram: return at once or be punished. Says Balanchine: "If we went back, we would be punished anyhow-no food." He never went back...
works on salesmen's wives to spur their husbands: the company keeps the wives closely informed about sales contests so that they can nag their husbands to greater efforts to win such prizes as a trip to Paris with the wife...
...Chip ends neither happily nor unhappily, but inevitably. When a financial depression and uncontrollable underground water combine to ruin the mine, Jim Packer has to take a job in another town. But with the family packed and waiting to go, he saddles a horse and packs another for a trip into the hills to follow a hunch about an old, deserted gold mine. His parting words: "Goodbye, boys. Take care of your mother...
Jordan made his speaking trip before the coaches' meeting. The first stop was Syracuse, N. Y., when other speakers included Crimson football captain Tim Anderson and wingback Bob Cowles. Also on the program was Bishop Malcolm E. Peabody '11, father of former All-American football player, Endicott "Chub" Peabody...
Died. Thomas Elmer Braniff, 70, Oklahoma City insuranceman, founder-president of Braniff International Airways (1928), the nation's sixth largest airline; with eleven others in the crash of a privately owned Mallard amphibian plane which iced up on the way home from a duck-hunting trip; on the shore of Lake Wallace, near Shreveport...