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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...
...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...
Team Play. Britain's triumph in aircraft design was due to a combination of free-enterprising plane builders, Labor government financing and good planning. It did much to wipe out the government's flop with the Tudor planes which had cost British taxpayers an estimated $28 to $40 million. As far back as 1942, the government had put grizzled Baron Brabazon of Tara (who holds Britain's Pilot License No. 1) at the head of a committee which mapped out five basic postwar types to go after the world plane market. Last week prototypes...