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...decoration has since become, to quote the Grande Encyclopedie, "the sign of great intellectual achievements, of talent, of learning, and of enlightened real in matters of culture." It is awarded by the officer de l'instruction publique of the French government...
Harman Blennerhassett was gifted with some talent for music and a flair for science; a contemporary notes that he had "all sorts of sense but commonsense." At 31, seven years after the Bastille's fall, he married his niece, the beauteous and witty Margaret Agnew whose father was Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man. Ostracized by both families, the honeymooning couple crossed the Atlantic to New York. Hunting for a home in the wilderness, they reached Pittsburgh by post, floated down the Ohio River on a keelboat. Some 14 miles below Marietta and hard by the mouth...
...Harar last week, New York Times's candid Harold Denny cabled: "The exodus of disappointed 'war correspondents' and camera men from Ethiopia is now well under way after one of the greatest and most expensive flops in journalistic and newsreel history. . . . The Ethiopians have an unmatched talent for procrastination-they dislike doing anything today which possibly can be put off. "The result has been that a hundred or more correspondents and camera men are gnawing their fingernails at Addis Ababa, Harar and Dire Dawa knowing less about the fighting they are supposed to be covering than...
...death by ballet enthusiasts during the past few years. Author Kirstein never knew the great impresario but from the testimony of many of his associates he has been able to paint him as a man with surly grandeur, a magnificent snarl, a staggering, penetrating, shrewd instinct. Diaghilev assembled talent which spoke for the best in music, painting, dancing. Pavlova was with him for a time, but she soon formed her own touring company, so built around her own personality that she succeeded in spite of ragged musical accompaniment, shoddy, second-rate scenery. The Diaghilev company was peerless so long...
...Nijinsky is mad, cloistered in a Swiss sanatorium. Now Diaghilev is dead, his company disbanded. For its so-called successor, the popular Monte Carlo Ballet Russe, Author Kirstein has limited respect. He freely grants talent to its maitre de ballet, Leonide Massine, to Ballerinas Alexandra Danilova, Tamara Toumanova, Tatiana Riabouchinska, Irina Baronova. But his hope is centred on the new American Ballet, engaged this season for the first time to supply dancing at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House...