Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tanglewood. After a student production of the Fountain Scene from Pelléas and Mélisande there, he landed a chance to sing Pélleas in the New York City Opera's closing performance last year. Ace French Repertory Conductor Jean Morel liked Rounseville's big, wide-ranging tenor voice, taught him to sing Hoffmann this season in the City Opera's first production of Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann...
When it was over, college students stomped their feet. A few white-haired ladies sat grimly with their hands folded, although most gave Boston-favorite Bernstein a big warm hand. Most could agree with "Koussy" that No. 2 was "real American-extraordinaire...
...baseball training season was just about over, and 16 major-league clubs were heading north for Opening Day next week. Was this the year when big-league play would finally pull itself out of the postwar doldrums? Oldtimers, looking back to more glamourous days, hoped so, but if it was, there had been no sign of it in six weeks of spring training...
...world champion Cleveland Indians had fewer weak spots than the rest, they were favorites to be the American League champions again. The Indians had been shrewder, and luckier, in filling another of baseball's great deficiencies: they had fresh pitching talent that could survive nine innings. They had big (6 ft. 3½ in.) Gene Bearden, who won 20 and lost 7 last year, plus assorted ablebodied veterans. In Manager Lou Boudreau they also had the smartest, hardest-hitting shortstop in baseball...
...DiMaggio, and both were slowing down. On top of that, DiMaggio's right heel had not healed to his satisfaction after last fall's operation for a bone spur. Said DiMag last week: "There's no use kidding anybody, my heel still hurts." Without the big guy, the Yankees would be in peril of the second division; even with him, they would be lucky to stay ahead of 86-year-old Connie Mack's young, ambitious Philadelphia Athletics...