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...although his mother was raised in Peoria), but always knew he wanted to write an "American" opera. A dozen years ago, he read Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a prose poem about the hardscrabble South by James Agee, with photographs by Walker Evans. Copland found it inspiring, afterward showed it to his librettist, Poet Horace Everett,* who was struck by the photographs of serefaced farmers and their families. Everett transferred the setting from the South to Kansas and finished the libretto two years...
...audience gave Figlia sufferance while clapping up seven enthusiastic curtain calls for the cast itself. Afterward, exhausted but unfazed by the prospect of mixed reviews, Mezzo Stevens stood up stoutly for the opera. "It has a lot of melody," she said. "I was very excited right from the start. Acting-wise it was wonderful for me. Besides, nobody could compare me with anybody...
...overactive thyroid removes more iodine-131 from the blood than a normal one, and this shows in a higher reading on the dial of the counter. Moreover, where the atomic cocktail test was once thought to require a second visit to the laboratory for a reading 24 hours afterward, researchers at the Navy's Radioisotope Laboratory in Bethesda, Md. now find that all the patient need do is swallow a glass of water containing a minute amount of radioactive iodine and sit around for an hour until the technician comes with the scintillation counter...
...clouds gathered and both sides started thundering. Rumors of a compromise started when Robert R. Young's Texas millionaire friends, Clinton W. Murchison and Sid W. Richardson, made a flying trip to Manhattan to talk to the Central's President William White and some of his directors. Afterward, the Texans flew back home and the word went out that no compromise was possible in the bitter fight...
...Smith Webb, was divorced shortly after he was born. She took the baby and her mother to California-first to San Francisco, and then, as her money dwindled, to a shabby apartment in Los Angeles. They had a bitter struggle. Jack nearly died of pneumonia when he was four. Afterward he suffered with asthma so racking that Maggie or Gram often had to carry him pickaback upstairs...