Word: baume
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tobin accused Vice-President George F. Baum, Jr. '55 and Treasurer James C. Currey, Jr. '52 1L Sunday of "spending club funds without the knowledge or approval of the executive committee," as required by the H.Y.D. constitution...
...only casualty was Tenor Kurt Baum of the Metropolitan Opera, who sang the young lover Arnoldo; on Tell's opening night, his voice cracked on some nearly impossible high notes, and before long had the hypercritical Italian audience jeering. Said a theater official, mopping his neck between acts: "There is always an atmosphere of the battlefield about our performances, but this is the most ferocious audience I have seen in 30 years...
...nights later, at a second performance, Tenor Baum redeemed himself magnificently. Extra police were in the balcony to keep Florentines from violence if he fluffed again. The big test was the fourth act, where the tenor has an aria lasting ten minutes and running the entire tenor scale. As Baum began to climb to the high notes, the usually noisy galleryites were quiet as mice. When he got to the stratospheric climax and crashed out the finish, the audience applauded its hands raw, cheered itself hoarse. Tenor Baum grinned like a schoolboy...
...vice-presidential race brought a nominee from each bloc. The partyliners put up Ted Kesselman; the Southerners renominated Baum; the HLU'ers countered with Frank Rhuland; and the Republicans entered the fight with Thayer Tugworth...
...Republicans stopped voting, leaving only three active blocs in the room. Still, some of the partyliners, unimpressed with Kesselman's qualifications, jumped the line and voted for Baum; he won, evening the slate at one partyliner and one Southerner...