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...latest revision by Director Ninette de Valois of that old charmer, Coppélia starring petite Ballerina Nadia Nerina, a whirlwind dancer, a vivacious actress and an impudent comedienne all at once. Coppelia, as generations of balletgoers know is a mechanical doll who all but wins the heart of a young man. Dolls of several nationalities dance in the dollmaker's workshop, elegantly costumed peasants gambol m the village square, and occasionally the story stops for a joyful pas de deux: in short, a delightful show...
...illusion, exemplified by a swindler's tricks as much as by a monarch's pomp and an artist's fictions. The last lines he committed to publication are a rollicking apostrophe to life that few other men of 80-or 40-could have written: "A whirlwind of primordial forces seized and bore me into the realm of ecstasy. And high and stormy, under my ardent caresses ... I saw the surging of that queenly bosom...
...more pleasing to art dealers than the appearance at their doors of Joseph Hirshhorn, a garrulous, hurrying little man with a big cigar. Multimillionaire Hirshhorn (TIME, Feb. 21) works with headlong intensity at his mining interests (uranium, gold, oil), "steals time" every week or so to make a whirlwind visit to a gallery. "I'll be in the middle of a meeting," he explains, "when I'll just get up and tell the boys I've got to go, but I don't say where...
...though ashamed of the whirlwind it had reaped, the government made no attempt to discourage pilgrimages to the churches; polite cops guarding the damaged properties interfered with nobody and even saluted priests...
...recent whirlwind tour to visit Budweiser wholesalers around the U.S., Busch bet every man he met a brand-new hat-900 in all-that he could not top his local sales quota for the year. So far, the challenge seems to be paying off. For May and June, Budweiser's wholesalers jumped their sales 5% over 1954 levels. Says Anheuser-Busch's President Gus Busch: "By the end of the year, I'll either have a houseful of hats or I'll be the biggest hat buyer in the country...