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...over, Ebert will board ship for the U.S. Since 1948, he has spent his winters teaching opera at the University of Southern California. He has already brought one of his American students to help him out of Glyndebourne and Edinburgh. Bob Herman, 25, son of onetime Brooklyn Daffy Dodger Babe Herman, is now his year-round assistant producer. Says Ebert: "Opera has a long way to go in America . . . There is too much accent on voices, not enough on stage presence. Nobody spends nearly nough time rehearsing...
Idaho. Harriet ("Babe") Hansen, who at 50 is an experienced rancher, ex-sergeant in the WAC, forest ranger, and wilderness guide, won the Republican nomination for sheriff of Boise County. Said sturdy "Babe," who wears a 10-gallon hat, reportedly can pick the eye out of a grouse at 100 yds., and has shot 75 mountain lions: "I think I'm qualified...
...born Tokyo Rose's, is "strictly un-American." One U.S. officer thought she sounded like a Korean who might have lived in England. And she was nowhere near so effective as either Sally or Rose. A veteran master sergeant complained: "Hell, Tokyo Rose used to entertain you. This babe's just a bore. Now if she'd only play some Benny Goodman or something like that, she'd get some listeners...
...Washington for the annual celebrity golf tourney, Jim Thorpe, 62, famed Carlisle Indians halfback, Olympic track star and onetime major-league (N.Y. Giants) outfielder, wound a bulging arm around Texas' Babe Didrikson Zaharias, 36. Photographers caught a good shot of two of the half-century's outstanding athletes...
Married. Julia Ruth Flanders, 33, table-tennis star (once a contender for the world's championship), adopted daughter of baseball's late great George Herman ("Babe") Ruth; and Willis Grant Meloon Jr., 29, an Episcopalian divinity student; she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...