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Even in 1919, when Anna Gosko got her first look at him, Adolf Balaban was no matinee idol. He was an awkward, wistful little fellow with a flat face, jug ears, and old-country manners. He wasn't the smartest man in the world, either. He had been "over...
That night in 1942, Choreographer Agnes George de Mille got her first taste of success. Last week, when the Ballet Russe presented Rodeo again, with Agnes dancing as the Cowgirl, the boots and blue-jeans no longer seemed strange; her wistful story of a girl who could rope a steer...
Vag chastened himself for such levity and stepped a little more carefully. Getting back to the books after vactation had always been a chore but now it seemed doubly so, with so much that was new. Already he had wandered into McBride's and buried his nose in a stein...
"Find out who Traven is," Spota's editor had once told him, "and you will be a great reporter." From that day, Luis Spota had been a man with a mission. When he finished his stay at El Parque Cachú, Spota went back to Mexico City and wrote...
It was a sad parody of a political convention. The delegates had come from far & wide. Most of them were young, a few were Townsendite elders. They were the disgruntled, the discontented, the wishful, the wistful and the starry-eyed. They were a perfect front for the convention bosses.