Word: baume
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). La Gioconda, with Milanov, Rankin, Baum, Warren...
FLAMINGO FEATHER, by Laurens van der Post (341 pp.; Morrow; $3.95). A bloody envelope, a pink-and-white feather, a sailor's cap, a murdered Negro-what does it all add up to and how does it tie in with the South African firm of Lindel-baum & Co., wine and spirit importers? Thanks to the throb of distant tom-toms (which seem to be saying Mau Mau), the least alert reader can guess that the spirits imported by evil Mr. Lindelbaum are more vodka and voodoo than honest Scotch. South African-born Novelist van der Post (Venture...
...other side of the artistic fence was the Center's board of directors, spearheaded by Morton Baum, New York lawyer and man-about-the-arts. Three years ago the board sacked adventurous Conductor Laszlo Halasz, installed Joseph Rosenstock, who is more tradition-directed. Last year the board fired key opera staffers without Kirstein's knowledge. Last week's last-straw news: the board had ignored Kirstein's plan to have Composer Gian-Carlo Menotti supervise the opera division and renewed Conductor Rosenstock's contract against Kirstein's wishes. Director Kirstein resigned in protest. Said...
...campaign, organized on a House basis, is also conducted by the World Federalists, the Liberal Union, the Catholic Club, and the U.N. Council. "PBH will coordinate the drive and forward the books and clothing to their various destinations," Baum added...
Students of Hanoi University who have fled to Saigon will receive the textbooks given by students in the College and the graduate schools. "By giving books to those courageous people, opponents of both communism and colonialism, we are making a real contribution to international understanding," Baum added...