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...taking kindly to defeat, Arnold Spitz promptly turned his young son over to Arden Hills Coach Sherman Chavoor, who has been Mark's mentor?officially and unofficially?ever since. The boy learned fast. At age ten he set his first U.S. record?31 sec. in the 50-yd. butterfly???a record that still stands today for the nine-ten age group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spitz | 9/11/1972 | See Source »

...occasion of the premiere of Turandot, posthumous opera of Giacomo Puccini, presented as he left it 17 months ago, unfinished. Critics, managers, connoisseurs the world over took the pilgrimage to Milan, hopefully, fearfully. Would Turandot be of the stuff of which La Boheme was made, La Tosca, Madame Butterfly???melodious, lovely, appealing, human above all operatic ingredients, or would it savor more of The Girl of the Golden West, of the later tryptich,* pappy, dull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Song | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

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