Word: duncan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago as a stenographer and interpreter, gradually became indispensable and was raised to full-correspondent status two years ago. Much in demand as guide and interpreter for traveling U.S. correspondents and authors, he has shepherded such visitors as John Gunther, Vincent Sheean. Margaret Bourke-White and David Douglas Duncan, who knew him by reputation and looked him up on their brief passages through India. These diverse and highly individualistic types have failed to give him a clear idea of the "typical American." In fact, says Rangaswami, those mysterious Westerners still leave him confused...
...France's most successful poster artist, Colin turned out the best affiches since Toulouse-Lautrec, and he had mastered his predecessor's trick of seizing a subject's single feature and turning it into an artistic stop sign. Among Colin's subjects: Isadora Duncan, Josephine Baker, Pavlova, Katharine Hepburn, the French National Railroads, Cinzano, vacation resorts such as Cannes and Deauville...
...living legend stepped on to the stage of the steamy barn theater at Jacob's Pillow in Massachusetts' Berkshires one day last week. She was Ruth St. Denis, world-famed dancer for more than half a century and, with Isadora Duncan, founder of modern dance. By the laws of time (she admits to 73), old Dancer St. Denis should have creaked. Actually, though nobody in the audience pretended that she looked like the girl in the White Rock ads any more, many forgot her age as they watched the practiced magic of her performance...
...race went on. The winning car: a British Jaguar driven by Tony Rolt and C. Duncan Hamilton, which set a Le Mans distance record of 2,535 miles. The Jaguar's average speed: 106 m.p.h., cracking the old record of 96.7 set last year by a German Mercedes Benz. Jaguars also placed second and fourth, with Fitch and his relief driver, Phil Walters, third in their Cunningham...
...Barry Bingham, president and editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, who just went around the world with Adlai E. Stevenson. The Reverend Duncan Howlett of the First Church of Boston, Malcolm Holmes, Dean of the New England Conservatory of Music, and Director of the Harvard Band for the last ten years. Johnny Green, song writer, and head of the music department...