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...chorus at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, whose members burst into song for about $14 each a night, has never been one of the company's greatest attractions. For its 61st annual season, opening in November, the Met's board of directors proposed to fire 16 choristers, reduce the chorus' size from 94 to 78. The notes it promptly heard from the American Guild of Musical Artists (president: Baritone Lawrence Tibbett) were decidedly unmusical. The union insisted that its own board should have the say on how big the chorus should be and who could be fired...
Street of Dignity. To reach his automobile, Gromyko passed through a queue of nylon seekers in front of the grey Soviet Consulate on East 61st Street. (Gromyko knows that Americans talk about nylons much more than about the atomic bomb.) The Cadillac turned into the dignified but flabby reaches of Fifth Avenue as matrons, becalmed by $3 luncheons, heaved out into the 4 o'clock sunshine. At Tiffany's or Cartier's, where a brooch might cost almost as much as a light tank, men & women paused to glance at displays with a diluted, good-natured envy...
...Washington, in the chill grey morning, President Harry Truman (who had just spent his first night in the White House), entered the oval study, flanked by his family, his aides, his Cabinet. It was his 61st birthday. He had had his speech ready for a week. In undramatic fashion, which served to emphasize the anticlimactic nature of the occasion, he first read his speech to 200 newsmen. Then, at 9 a.m., he went on the radio. In a clear and quiet voice, he announced the victory in Europe: "The Allied armies, through sacrifice and devotion and with...
...President Roosevelt celebrates his 61st birthday ... at the close of one of the most brilliant episodes of his career: a journey which brought the breath of his democratic enthusiasm into three continents; a conference which, however little we may know about its strategic decisions, dramatized the fact that the psychological initiative in this war has passed to the United Nations...
There was no contact work on the docket, but the boys will probably go at it hot and heavy today and Wednesday, oiling the Crimson machine for the 61st meeting of the two colleges...