Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among Berg's most ear-catching passages and devices: a chiming bell that interrupts erotic episodes, a long, slithering solo by Lulu herself (Soprano Ilona Steingruber), realistic effects of screams and falling bodies. The fine performance by the Vienna Symphony (conducted by the late Herbert Hafner) and singers of the Vienna State Opera was recorded for Columbia last spring. The arrival of Lulu on records is the equal of many a live premiere...
When TIME Correspondent Jim Bell arrived in the Middle East 18 months ago, he was handed one of the biggest assignments ever undertaken by a single reporter. His beat covered roughly 5,500,000 square miles,* in which five major languages and dozens of dialects are spoken, and in which he used any one of eleven different airlines to hedgehop from one country to another. This year, with the growing importance of news from the Middle East, it was decided that the job was too much for even such a peripatetic correspondent as Bell. Late this spring he was joined...
Richardson didn't have to wait long for his formal initiation into the far-flung problems of reporting in the Middle East. He had barely settled his family in Beirut when Bell left for the U.S., to be treated for an arm injury suffered while covering the fighting in Korea. Soon after Bell's departure, two major stories broke almost simultaneously: 1) the fall and return to power of Mohammed Mossadegh's government in Iran, and 2) the abdication of King Farouk in Egypt...
...Bell and Richardson must constantly visit their news sources, travel about three weeks of every month. With 90 extra pages added to the normal 48 pages of his passport, Bell now carries that bulky document in a briefcase. To keep visas valid for quick take-offs to new trouble spots, both men apply for new visas immediately on returning from any country. At first, legation officials objected: "But you've just come back." But now, reports Richardson: "They know us and treat us like commuters buying a new monthly ticket for the 8:05." On a recent return...
...Bell came near to developing an inferiority complex once when interviewing a Kurdish chieftain in his mud hut near the Russian border. When the tribesman asked how many wives and sons he had, Bell owned up to one of each. Said the chieftain: "That makes me twice the man you are. I have two wives and two sons." Back in his headquarters in Beirut this week, Bell is feeling better about his social status. With the arrival of the Richardson, the TIME bureau, at least, can boast of two wives...