Word: tudor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father decided to build a house on a piece of Long Island property which they hadn't been able to sell. Alfred quit New York University-after telling the dean that the place couldn't teach him anything more-and drew plans for a Tudor-style house. Says father Abe: "Alfred loved to draw, but he didn't know what a two-by-four was." Nevertheless, they sold that first house at a profit-and the Levitts were in the building business for good...
...built no house for himself. In winter he lives with his pretty wife Rhoda and their two sons, Bill Jr., 17, and Jimmy, 5, in a twelve-room Fifth Avenue apartment, which he rents for $4,900 a year. Summers they spend at Great Neck, L.I., in an English Tudor mansion (which Levitt rents for $7,500 a season) which has both a swimming pool and a private bathing beach on Long Island Sound. On summer weekends Bill sometimes plays golf (low 90s) with wife Rhoda (low 80s) but is not disturbed by his constant defeats. Says he: "I hate...
...that a company without "Russe" in the title was impossible. For five years, while Russian Balletomane Sol Hurok had his hands on the company, its American accent became thick with borsch, but Dancer Chase brought Ballet Theatre safely past that stage. She encouraged more ballets by English Choreographer Antony Tudor and let aspiring young U.S. choreographers have a chance. One of them, Jerome Robbins, repaid her by giving Ballet Theatre one of its biggest hits, Fancy Free (TIME, May 22, 1944). The Yankee twang was sharpened even more by commissioning new ballet scores from U.S. composers...
...same dinner tow seniors were presented awards for their performances this season. Goalie John 'Chase was awarded the John Angler trophy for being "the most improved player." Shorty Minot, who played third line wing this year, received the John Tudor trophy for contributing "the best team spirit...
From Cardiff, in Wales, a four-engined Avro Tudor V took off one day last week for the 200-mile hop across the Irish Sea to Dublin. Aboard were 78 passengers (72 men, six women) and a crew of five bound for a championship Rugby match in Belfast...