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Lady, set no precedents, bided her time in semi-seclusion in New York and Philadelphia (Washington was not yet the capital) complaining about the drafts and writing letters. Not until she became the second First Lady did Abigail reach Washington and the unfinished White House. It was, she reported, intolerably drafty...
...fill 69% of the Army's need for new officers. But is compulsion necessary? The Navy's volunteer ROTC program includes a first-rate scholarship scheme that produces fine officers with fewer dropouts. The Air Force is already trying to end the massive "lost motion" of its semi-compulsory ROTC program (TIME. Dec. 28). Some Pentagon experts estimate that half the Army's college units could lose their compulsory status by 1970 without endangering the Army's supply of new officers...
...diligence (constant letter writing and diary keeping) commended her to Victoria, and she was chosen to marry Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, in direct line for the throne. Alas, Prince "Eddy," as they called him. was not very bright but very dissipated, and he died-in the usual semi-public royal fashion, with May and his family at his bedside-in a "noisy and frightful delirium." There remained George, Duke of York, Eddy's younger brother, a naval officer. After a suitable interval, bluff George and reticent May were married, and set up house at York Cottage, near Sandringham...
...years Choreographer Ashton had worked mostly with Margot Fonteyn's classical, dramatic talents in mind (she is semi-retired). In La Fille, noted London critics, he had done something different-"an open-air, sunlit ballet as perfect of its kind as the moonlit Sylvia or Ondine or the chandeliered La Valse." But the enthusiastic response did not alter Ashton's gloomy estimate of the ballet public. "I feel," said he, "that most people still think choreography is something to do with the feet-like chiropody...
...owner. In the entry Hugo Robus' green bronze Song seemed about to chirp a childish "May I take your coat?" At one side of the powder room stood Nadelman's painted bronze Woman, attentive as a lady-in-waiting. At the other side arched Robus' rainbowlike, semi-abstract Woman Washing Her Hair. The washroom offered a brace of sporting dogs by Hunt Diederich, and in its paneled lounge stood Epstein's mournful, supplicating Hannah...