Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salaries. In Pinar del Rio, 400 common prisoners pledged to stop smoking for two days and send in the 20? that each saved. Since Castro apparently cannot get the 17 Hawker Hunter jets that he wants from England (TIME, Oct. 26), he promised to buy planes "anywhere I can." Even Russia? asked a reporter. "Even the moon...
...cops searched high and low for half an hour, finished her program after the bomb scare was pronounced a hoax. After a thunderous ovation, Callas greeted Harry S. Truman with a courtly "I am honored," made her manners to Kansas Governor George Docking, who was also in the audience, even attended a post-concert party at the River Club where she danced with local millionaires and nibbled caviar snacks, an "almost blue" filet mignon and the "Delice Callas" dessert (peppermint ice cream, brandy-flavored chocolate, meringue, whipped cream, pistachio nuts...
...discovered rusted rifles of every conceivable make, ammunition so old that only half of it would fire. Among the debris in one corner of the armory, he even found a long-forgotten coffin containing the body of the daughter of President Alexandre Petion (1808-18). But he also found old blue ceremonial uniforms in the army warehouses and soon fielded a band that gives rousing renditions of the Marines' Hymn, plus a passable version of the Haitian anthem. More important, Heinl's 40-man team taught the troops how to get from bunks to battle stations all over...
Actually, the critics of the Met's new Figaro were on shaky ground; there is no evidence that Mozart, whose sense of humor was bawdy and mercurial, saw in Figaro anything but superb entertainment. Director Ritchard feels that even a Mozart opera should be theater, not merely oratorio, based his interpretation on a study of the original Beaumarchais play from which Lorenzo da Ponte wrote the libretto; Figaro, he thinks, is shot through with a kind of "Hogarthian exaggeration" too often muted by Mozart worshipers...
...next scheduled performance. Would General Manager Rudolf Bing boot out Ritchard and restyle the work, as the Herald Tribune's scholarly Paul Lang suggested? By no means. If the Countess did not emerge as a great lady, said Bing, perhaps it was because "we don't even know who her parents were." As for the offending clothesline, he added, "I've had washing hanging in my own room...