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...Baltimore, members of the city council listened last week as Civil Defense Chief William Codd outlined a proposal to move more than a million residents to West Virginia, if given 72 hours' notice of a nuclear attack. People would theoretically flee in sequence according to their zip codes; the estimated 330,000 Baltimoreans without cars would board MTA buses, already notorious for being late even on the most placid of days. Inexplicably, the proposal envisions at least 33,000 leaving the city armed with crowbars. Complained Councilman Dominic DiPietro as he stormed out of the meeting: "What a bunch...
...action, 2,500 off-duty cops gathered near the Americana Hotel, where the labor negotiations were going on, shouting chants, jostling pedestrians and tying up midtown traffic for three hours. Another group besieged Police Commissioner Michael Codd's home in Queens, honking horns and yelling epithets; one enthusiastic demonstrator tore the star off the shoulder of a deputy chief inspector and threw his hat and walkie-talkie underneath...
False Noses. But it was the failure of the uniformed police to discipline either their off-duty brethren or the mobs at Yankee Stadium that exhausted the city's patience. In an angry statement. Commissioner Codd told his 26,000-man force that any policeman unwilling to accept the responsibility of his job should "retire or get out." Codd promised to bring departmental charges against the offenders and the precinct captains who had allowed the disorders to occur...
...under the direction of G. Wallace Woodworth, performed Mozart's cantata Regina Coell (K. 108) written when the composer was only 16 years old. The chorus here demonstrated a great deal of precision and feeling, perhaps because of the smaller group and the superior acoustics of Sanders Theatre. Margaret Codd Goldovsky sang the soprano solo, Ora Pro Nobis, from this aria, with great feeling and expression, although in the coloratura passages of the last movement she seemed still to lack that almost instrumental clarity and agility required for singing Mozart...
After the interval, Margaret, Codd Goldovsky, soprano, the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society assisted in the performance of Mozart's Cantata (K. 108) . . . Mrs. Goldovsky sank in good style and with tonal warmth, although she was often overbalanced by the orchestra.--The Boston, Dally Globe, August...