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April 23, 1960

The New Yorker cover for April 23, 1960

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CHOREOGRAPHER

Bernard Taper

PROFILE of George Balanchine, chief choreographer of the N. Y. C. Ballet. In 1931, Rene Blum, the brother of Leon Blum, began putting together a ballet …