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...long since danced rings around his onetime friend and later rival, Sergio Osmena. But from outside, the threatening forces crowded-forces which might also concern the U. S. The question an anxious State Department pondered was where Tango Dancer Quezon, with the Philippines in his arms, would whirl next...
...crowd gawked at its three-bladed, 14-foot overhead rotor (propeller), its spraddle-legged landing gear, its conventional airplane controls. Into the pilot's seat crawled Designer Sikorsky. The 75-h.p. engine back of the seat of his pants began to buzz, the rotor began to whirl. Three tiny propellers in an outrigger tail, used for stabilizer, rudder and elevators, whistled into shimmering discs...
These are the men your objectors-to-service apparently think of as having been nothing but suckers for propaganda, and unwilling victims of a slaughter. That wouldn't trouble them. They have had a whirl, since 1917, at being considered pretty much everything as the cycle of fashion in thought revolved. First, of course they were Heroes. Then the debunking-novel period arrived and they were alleged to have been ruffians, bullies, and blackguards. Then for a while everybody was so busy that gold stars grew tarnished and were forgotten. And now, forsooth, the boys in the oak picture-frames...
...Hurok bagged Dancer Anna Pavlova, who called him "Hurokchik." In the next four years her tours, on which he often accompanied her. netted the two of them $500,000. Two other Hurok dancers were the late Isadora Duncan, who fortified herself with whiskey and champagne, left a confetti-like whirl of bouncing checks wherever she went; and Loie Fuller, whose tour was supposed to be keyed to the ludicrous U. S. progress of her friend Queen Marie of Rumania. Other attractions launched in the U. S. by Hurok: Basso Feodor Chaliapin, Contralto Marian Anderson, Dancer Mary Wigman, the Vienna Choir...
Meantime aggressive Mr. Dewey moved toward Wisconsin, routing defeatism as he went. Handsome, happy, healthy as a horse, Tom Dewey celebrated his 38th birthday last week, laid out a speechmaking path that would whirl him through the Badger State in a two-day, 20-stop gale just before Primary...