"I'll be a professor," Miss McBride said the other day in her sunny Upper West Side apartment.

"I had told my husband I'd stop in two years," Miss McBride continued.

"I'm going to dance a lot," Miss McBride said.

"At 13 I was the size I am now," Miss McBride said.

Miss McBride describes the ballets they danced together as "having lots of technique" and being fast and exuberant.

Miss McBride cuts a handsome figure, and Mr. White has a restrained sense of athletic comedy.

Miss McBride's soprano seemed strong if overly busy with vibrato.

Miss McBride was a Robbins favorite and highly versatile.

Miss McBride was one of the few outsiders teaching in Hawley who gave every indication of remaining.

Miss McBride never had the impersonal veneer once wrongly or rightly associated with Balanchine dancers.