Kitt began her career as a member of the Katherine Dunham Company in 1943 and remained a member of the troupe until 1948.

Dunham awarded him ( 1947 ) a fellowship to study for a Master Teaching Certificate in Dunham Technique, which he received in 1948.

In 1948, Dunham appointed Fort as chief administrator and dance teacher of the Katherine Dunham School of Dance in New York, a position Fort retained until 1954 when the school closed because of financial problems.

In recent years Anna Xydis has played with the New York Philharmonic and at Lewisohn Stadium, but her program last night at Town Hall was the Greek-born pianist's first New York recital since 1948.

But under the direction of Mira Ziminska-Sygietynska, who with her late husband founded the organization in 1948, it has all been put into theatrical form, treated selectively, choreographed specifically for presentation to spectators, and performed altogether professionally.

His parents, who separated shortly after World War II, never married, and Ayckbourn's mother divorced her first husband to marry again in 1948.

In 1948, Pasternak advised Ivinskaya to resign her job at Novy Mir, which was becoming extremely difficult due to their relationship.

He later divorced her after the marriage became a political liability, although Leon ( 1948 ) suggests it may have been due to emotional and mental abuse by Paetina.

In 1948, after being persuaded by Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne and her agent at the time, Al Levy, she auditioned for Michael Curtiz, which led to her being cast in the female lead role in Romance on the High Seas.

After her separation from her second husband, George Weidler, in 1948, Day reportedly intended to leave Los Angeles and return to her mother's home in Cincinnati.

She won a listeners ' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948 – 1949, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March.

Lang, Bennett, and her husband, Universal veteran and Diana production head Walter Wanger, would make Secret Beyond the Door ( 1948 ) in similar fashion.

In 1948, troubled by the heavy drinking and frequent depressions that had become a feature of her husband's life in Istanbul, she experienced a breakdown of this nature, staging an accident and injecting herself with urine and insulin to cause skin disfigurations.

Upon her return to Istanbul in late 1948, she was badly burned in an incident with a charcoal stove, and returned to Switzerland.

From 1945 through 1948 she was held in sundry American and French-run detention camps and prisons along with house arrest but although Riefenstahl was tried four times by various postwar authorities, she was never convicted through denazification trials either for her alleged role as a propagandist or for the use of concentration camp inmates in her films.

With the release of the US # 1-selling record of 1948, " Mañana ", her " retirement " was over.

Frances worked on several of her husband's films, and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story for Louisiana Story ( 1948 ).

On 20 February 1948, Prokofiev's wife Lina was arrested for ' espionage ', as she tried to send money to her mother in Spain.

Leigh was well enough to resume acting in 1946, in a successful London production of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth ; but her films of this period, Caesar and Cleopatra ( 1945 ) and Anna Karenina ( 1948 ), were not great successes.

In 1948, Bette Davis, still the studio's top actress and now fed up with Jack Warner, was a big problem for Harry after she and a number of her colleagues left the studio after completing the film Beyond the Forest.

Stephanie Lynn " Stevie " Nicks ( born May 26, 1948 ) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over forty Top 50 hits and sold over 140 million albums.

** Joan Hinton ( 1921 – 2010 ) worked for the Manhattan Project and lived in China from 1948 until her death on 8 June 2010 ; she was married to Sid Engst.

A special Tony was presented to her in 1948 for " spreading theatre to the rest of the country while the originals perform in New York.

Bolesław Bierut, an NKVD agent, and a hard Stalinist served as first Secretary General of the ruling PUWP from 1948 to 1956, playing a leading role in the Sovietisation of Poland and the installation of her most repressive regime.

In 1952, Lancaster co-produced with producer Harold Hecht ( who had previously produced three Lancaster films under his own production company Norma Productions ; Kiss the Blood Off My Hands ( 1948 ), The Flame and the Arrow ( 1950 ), and Ten Tall Men ( 1951 )).

Two Cities Films, an independent production company also made some important films including This Happy Breed ( 1944 ), Blithe Spirit ( 1945 ) and Sir Laurence Olivier's Henry V ( 1944 ) and Hamlet ( 1948 ).

The Nederlandse Seintoestellen Fabriek ( NSF ) company established a professional transmitter and radio factory in Hilversum in the early 1920s, growing into the largest of its kind in the Netherlands, and in 1948 being taken over by Philips.

In addition to being offered better, more diverse roles, in 1948 he started his own production company, Santana Productions, named after his private sailing yacht.

The Wham-O company, founded in 1948, was named after their first product, the Wham-O slingshot.

The company also manufactured trolleybuses, between 1948 and 1960, but the total number built was only 52, comprising 23 for Helsinki and 29 for Tampere.

In the aftermath of the 1948 antitrust suit, uncertain times led Warner Bros. in 1956 to sell most of its pre-1950 films and cartoons to a holding company called Associated Artists Productions ( a. a. p .).

Between 1948 and 1953 a motor bus service was operated by a company called Jamaica Utilities.

Williams spent the spring and summer of 1948 in Rome in the company of a teenaged Italian boy to whom he provided financial assistance for several years afterward ( a situation which planted the seed of Williams ' first novel The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone ).

In 1930 this company merged with General Motors Corporation and the company's new name would be General Aviation Manufacturing Corporation ( which in turn merged with North American Aviation and was divested by GM in 1948 ).

In 1947 Indiana Standard was the first company to drill off-shore, in the Gulf of Mexico, and in 1948 Stanolind Oil invented Hydrafrac, a hydraulic well fracturing process that increased oil production worldwide.

The Baedeker company's premises and files perished in a December 1943 air raid, but Baedeker's great grandson revived the company, restarting publication of tourist guides in 1948.

Dunkin ' Donuts, which was founded in 1948 under the name Open Kettle ( Quincy, Massachusetts ), is the oldest surviving company to use the donut variation ; other chains, such as the defunct Mayflower Doughnut Corporation ( 1931 ), did not use that spelling.

In 1948, with Claude E. Robinson, he founded Gallup and Robinson, Inc., an advertising research company.

In 1948, C & O Railroad company wanted out of the city.

The company began marketing a line of appliances known as the " Whirlpool " brand in 1948.

Dillardtown: Located along Dillardtown Road and extending to US 23 Business, Dillardtown was the original homestead of the Dillard family, who later started a construction company and built the neighborhood between 1948 and 1970.

At the end of 1948 Piper bought the Stinson Aircraft Company for $ 3 million and Shriver left the company.

In 1948, after a driving mishap where her automobile is wrecked, Miss Daisy ’ s son, Boolie ( Dan Aykroyd ), tells her she will have to get a chauffeur because no insurance company will cover her.

By 1948, the company built a large sawmill in Oakridge and had began a massive timber logging operation.

Weaver died in 1934 and his company sold Heisley to Bethlehem Mines in 1948.

The Long-Playing record was launched in the USA in 1948 by Columbia Records ( not connected with the British company of the same name at the time ).

* The Great Western Railway, a United Kingdom railway company nationalised in 1948 and that has since lent its name to:

In 1948 the company was nationalised and became a part of British Waterways.

On the death of the third Viscount in 1948, the death duties were so severe that a public holding company had to be formed and shares sold to W H Smith staff and the public.