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Jacques Wolfe, 55, composer of such famed songs as Shortnin' Bread, Glory Road, and Gwine to Hebb'n, is a man with strong feelings about "real American opera." He is convinced that it won't develop until a lot of traditional "operatic hogwash" goes down the drain. His prediction: American opera will settle in a style "somewhere between Porgy and Bess and South Pacific. Let's face it, the popular song is the American idiom." Last week Rumanian-born Composer Wolfe was illustrating his point in a theater off Broadway with a little production called Mississippi...
Georgetown, one of the oldest names in football, is the 16th college to drop the sport since the close of the 1950 season. School authorities blamed "the uncertainty of the times" and the financial drain on limited athletic resources as the reasons for dropping the sport...
Said Howe: "On a per capita basis, we shall probably carry more [of a defense load] than many of our allies ... To you in the United States who are used to thinking in astronomical totals, the figures may not appear large, but relatively, they represent something like a comparable drain on the national output...
Reynolds explained that a deficit in the housing budget must be avoided at all costs lest it put a drain on the educational funds of the College. Provost Buck said a week ago that he is preparing to take a $600,000 to $700,000 deficit in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as a result of lower enrollment. This planning depends on successful financing in other departments of the University...
Unimpressed by the Tories, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent suavely made his case for a painless policy. He argued that conscription now might drain men off from what he said is Canada's primary defense mission-production of arms and munitions for herself and her allies. Europe, he said, can provide soldiers more efficiently than Canada, but nobody could surpass Canadian industrial efficiency...