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...youngster named Erich Reuthner joined the band and told his mates that his uncle had a cache of money at home. The Panther Bande surrounded the uncle's house, called out his name, and when he appeared, shot and killed him. Overcome by remorse. Erich tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the stomach; in his hospital bed later, he told police all. A month later the Panthers were all in jail once more...
...such hits as The King and I and The Cage), thought moderns would be bored by the tired old staging of Nijinsky's Faun, wanted to do something new that "recaptured its tensions." He got his idea during a lull in a ballet practice session, watching a youngster languorously stretching at the barre and enjoying the movements of his own body. The ballet's evolution was neither easy nor fast: three years after the original idea came to him, Robbins got down to work, took six weeks to whip it into final shape...
...four to six weeks. ¶ Polio struck early at Prairie Village, Kans. (pop. 9,500), and, with eight cases reported, the Office of Defense Mobilization allocated 1,000 cc of scarce gamma globulin. Not all exposed children got the shots; injections were given instead to every third or fourth youngster on lower-grade-school rosters. In all, there was enough G.G. for only 117 shots, but most parents of passed-over childrcn took it gracefully...
...Madison Square Garden last week, Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus was off for Boston on the first lap of its annual 10,000-mile tour. As always, the "Greatest Show on Earth" was jammed with enough clowns, animals and death-defying aerialists to bewilder the most attentive youngster in the audience. And, as always, the whole show sparkled with a brand-new spring outfit of costumes, scenery and floats. The man who dresses the circus anew each year, "from the sawdust up" (moss-green this year), is a mild-mannered, round-faced designer named Miles White...
Totten has a special soft spot for the late George Gershwin, first remembers him as a music-hungry youngster to whom he gave occasional free passes. Later, Composer Gershwin gave Totten free tickets to his Broadway openings...