Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago, pretty Contralto Kathleen Ferrier had made a name for herself at Britain's Glyndebourne Opera Festival -and the name was Orfeo. Last week, after her first U.S. performance of Gluck's 187-year-old, seldom heard opera Orfeo ed Euridice, Manhattan operagoers understood...
...Britain at large first got an earful...
...Unlike Britain and France, which have long used a system of year-end ratings to evaluate top race horses the U.S. muddled along with no official formula for comparing its turf champions. Last month in Lexington, Ky., breeders of the Thoroughbred Club of America decided to do something about it. They agreed on a plan to standardize rankings of the nation's top-flighters with a system of handicap weights based on performances at a mile-and-a-quarter. It was to be called the Yardstick...
...first lap of the postwar international air race, Britain had bet on the long-beaked Avro Tudor. Britain hoped the Tudor would help the nation get by without using U.S. planes until its jet transports were ready. The Ministry of Supply, which buys all aircraft for the government's three big international lines, ordered 16 Tudor Is for British Overseas Airways Corp. When the Tudor Is were tested, their performance was so poor that BOAC refused to accept them. Eventually British South American Airways took four Tudor IVs for its South Atlantic run and Avro kept on building them...
Last week Britain admitted it had lost its Tudor bet. In the House of Lords, Civil Aviation Minister Lord Pakenham solemnly intoned: "I have regretfully come to the conclusion that this type of aircraft should not continue to be used for carrying passengers...