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...famous mad scene, but sometimes she sounded as shrill as static, and during her second-act duet with Baritone Enzo Sordello she dropped her highest note like a hot knife, while Baritone Sordello held his. What happened next could be the script for a third-rate opera buff...
Shining with confidence, California's polished Paul Ziffren arrived in Washington last week to help other Democratic National Committeemen buff up their strategy. As the committeeman from a big state that shows steady Democratic inroads (and may be due for 37 House seats instead of the present 30, under the 1961 reapportionment), Ziffren felt emboldened to make a major suggestion. The suggestion, co-fathered by Committeemen Jake Arvey of Illinois* and David Lawrence of Pennsylvania: a new 17-member committee, made up of non-National Committeemen to advise the party...
STEELE studied American history under the Arthur Schlesingers (father and son), Frederick Merk and Samuel E. Morison as a Nieman Fellow (1951-52) at Harvard and likes to think of himself as an amateur historian. His specialty was the Revolutionary War, but now he is a Civil War buff. On weekends at Gettysburg he has tramped over the battlefields near the President's farm, armed with a huge folding map and binoculars, sometimes studying with Dr. Frederick Tilberg, chief historian at Gettysburg, at other times with his 13-year-old daughter Debby and nine-year-old son Larry...
...records of Count Basie and Duke Ellington, and gradually his attitude changed. Last year, between concert tours (he has played four times in Carnegie Hall), he organized a group of musicians in Vienna, wrote out jazz-style counterpoint for them and made a series of broadcasts. American Jazz Buff John Hammond, who had a significant part in the careers of Basie and Benny Goodman, listened to off-the-air recordings and flipped for joy. He helped Gulda gather his combo in the U.S., got him booked into Birdland and also for Newport's American Jazz Festival next week...
...year-old Welsh corgi presented to Robin by an upstate New York fan. Mary Ann, who dutifully goes to Connie Mack Stadium when Robin is pitching a home game and turns on radio or TV when he performs on the road, still makes no pretense of being a baseball buff. She admits to knowing precious little about how the other players are doing, is sure only that so far, this season has been all slump for the Phillies. "I don't even bother to check the standings," says Mary Roberts...