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Music Researcher Dorothea Bourne took something of a busman's holiday. Landing from the new S.S. Independence in Naples, she was soon enjoying a magnificently costumed production of Otello at Rome's Teatro dell'Opera, later, in Venice, met Composer Gian Francesco Malipiero and Conductor Angelo Ephrikian. In Florence, while sampling the music at hand, she insists that in a nightclub she discovered the "last resting place of bop." At opening night of the Maggio Musicale she saw her first performance of Verdi's Macbeth, was a bit disappointed in the production...
...American World Airways' Captain Charles Blair, on a busman's holiday one day last winter, streaked across the Atlantic at 450 m.p.h. in his own war-surplus FSI Mustang, and broke the nonstop New York-to-London record by an hour and seven minutes. Ever since, back on the job as boss pilot of a transatlantic Stratocruiser, he worked over plans for an interesting way to get his maroon Excaliber III back home...
...Busman Charles Henry Darke, conductor on London's No. 60 bus route from Colindale to Old Ford and a faithful Communist for 18 of his 42 years, is a Communist no longer. The heroic stand of Britain's Gloucestershire Regiment against the Communists in Korea (TIME, May 7) had set him to thinking. Said he to newsmen last week...
Much of the reunion will be in the form of a busman's holiday, for the visiting doctors will visit five hospitals in the greater Boston area this morning...
...asked a tough Jalisco-born busman, "to throw off a guitarrista who sings so sweetly of my birthplace? Do you hear what he is playing?" At the back of the bus, grinning broadly, the troubador sang a song from Jalisco-Cuando Mueren los Valientes (When Brave...