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...outpourings that many of Marx's more than 500 Tribune articles appeared without byline among the paper's celebrated editorials. Says Hale: "Much of what the Tribune's subscribers took to be the work of Greeley was the work of Marx." Marx's opinion of "das Lauseblatt [that lousy rag]" was consistently low, and at first his command of English was poor. So many of the articles he passed off as his own (for $5 each) were ghostwritten for him by his financial angel and literary factotum, Friedrich Engels who was in Manchester managing a textile...
...such distinguished members of the subsequent Communist government of Yugoslavia as President Jbsip Broz Tito, successive Vice Presidents Milovan Djilas and Alexander Ran-kovic, and late Assembly President Mosha Pijade. The Communists had such an easy time of it in Mitrovica jail (Tito swotted up on Stalinism, Pijade , translated Das Kapital and smuggled it out to a printer) that when they took over, they made certain that their own victims had no such advantages. Visits to Mitrovica prison are few and far between today, guards are tougher, cells are no longer heated in winter. Kept in solitary is the jail...
...Metropolitan Opera's Rudolf Bing is a fastidious Viennese who has little use for the Teutonic excesses of Richard Wagner. But this season he bravely buckled down to putting on Wagner's complete 15-hour Ring cycle (Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung) for the first time in six years. Somewhat to Bing's surprise, it was a smash hit. The Wagner-starved public queued up for tickets: "It was as if Callas were singing Lucia''' Result: the Met decided to follow up the two scheduled Rings with...
Having covered and re-covered the standard operatic repertory on LPs, e.g., ten complete and currently available Pagliaccis, seven Aïdas, five Butterflys, record companies have begun to dig for lesser known works. One of the happiest recent finds: Puccini's one-acter, II Tabarro, on an excellent RCA Victor LP. This somberly lyric tale of jealousy, betrayal and murder on a Seine River barge is sung with power and intensity by Baritone Tito Gobbi, Soprano Margaret Mas and Tenor Giacinto Prandelli, strongly backed by the Rome Opera's chorus and orchestra under Veteran Conductor Vincenzo Bellezza...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Wagner's Das Rheingold, with Thebom, Madeira...