Word: falling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Among British choreographers, 43-year-old Frederick Ashton has been the busiest and best, lately. U.S. audiences saw several of his witty, agreeable ballets, e.g., Cinderella, Facade, Wedding Bouquet, danced by Britain's Sadler's Wells company last fall (TIME, Nov. 14). Last week Manhattan fans got to see a new Ashton work danced by a U.S. company...
When he was invited last fall to do a new ballet for New York's City Ballet Company, Ashton was delighted. Ever since the war he had been coddling an idea that he thought might be too salty for English dancers. While he was an R.A.F. intelligence officer stationed in Scotland, he had taken to reading the neurotic verses of French Poet Arthur Rimbaud, who went looking for the secrets of life in its sewers, via drugs and debauchery. A lot of what Rimbaud (rhymes with Sambo) had to say was "indecent," Ashton told himself; but perhaps he could...
...stockholders of U.S. Gypsum, which he also heads, Avery reported that the company had salted away $55 million in cash reserves. Warned Avery: "The thing that hit us in 1929 cannot be assumed not to happen again. Personally, I have been waiting for years for the ax to fall. I am becoming more convinced momentarily that the time is not far away...
...King's Men. The sensational rise & fall of a grass-roots demagogue; (TIME...
...perfect spot for retirement, 61-year-old Donald M. Nelson las fall bought a French provincial mansion on a mountaintop overlooking California's San Fernando Valley. But retirement was too dull for the onetime head of the War Production Board. Last week Nelson came down from his mountain to become president, treasurer and a director of Colorado's Consolidated Caribou Silver Mines, Inc. In with him as vice president went Richard J. Reynolds, son of the late tobacco tycoon; and as director, Joseph B. Keenan, ex-Assistant U.S. Attorney General and prosecutor in the Tokyo war criminal trials...