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...opera, the scene is improving slightly. Three decades ago, Soprano Dorothy Maynor could and did prepare opera after opera without ever being invited to sing. One of the century's finest contraltos, Marian Anderson, did not break into opera until 1955, when she was 52. Beyond Tenor George Shirley there are hardly any black male opera singers. But of the top eight American-born female operatic singers, four-Leontyne Price, Shirley Verrett, Martina Arroyo and Grace Bumbry-are black...
...swimmer, played a social game of tennis, studied piano and the flute. Her father remembers Diana as "independent in her thinking. She always had her own ideas, and they were sound ideas." About what? "A picture she liked, the best way to treat an animal, which was the finest season of the year-almost anything...
...Southern moderation. No liberal save by right-wing Southern standards, he has followed the Supreme Court despite intense local pressure, sat on courts that abolished the Alabama poll tax and handed down the nation's first order requiring a state to reapportion voting districts. He is probably the finest Southern Republican trial judge of his generation...
Yesterday, Jose Gonzalez entered the Hemenway squash courts ready to face Terrell in the finals of the Harvard intrasquad competition for the Foster Cup. Terrell was already on the court, exhibiting the finest squash technique of the collegiate competition in a match between Larry Terrell and Larry Terrell...
Terrell is playing his finest squash of the season now. "I started playing very well after I finished my thesis," he explained. In the next few weeks, Terrell will compete with Anil Nayar in the Massachusetts Doubles Championship in which they are the defending champions...