Word: flyering
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London's historic Covent Garden opera house, reopened last year, has been doing a big business with the famed Sadler's Wells ballet. The Garden managers, counting their profits, decided to take a flyer on a permanent opera company. To play it as safe as they could, they imported promising young Sopranos Audrey Bowman and Virginia MacWatters from the U.S. and hired as director an Austrian refugee named Karl Rankl, who had conducted opera in Vienna, Berlin and Prague...
Stubborn, high-strung Ted Schroeder, ex-Navy flyer and onetime U.S. singles champion (in 1942), never could sleep soundly the night before a big tennis match. Sometimes he got out of bed in disgust and ate a 4 a.m. breakfast. Last week, the hot, humid weather in Melbourne was no help. And it was no help either that he was the unexpected dark-horse choice to help Jack Kramer (TIME, Dec. 30) win the Davis Cup back from the Australians...
...night was dark but rainless; signal lights showed all clear. The exhausts of two locomotives pulling the Pennsylvania Railroad's Golden Triangle blended in a syncopated roll as the Pittsburgh-Chicago flyer raced west across the Ohio farmlands. But up the line at Coulter, a hamlet far beyond the trembling glare of the Triangle's headlight, the stage was being set for tragedy...
...slightly by the number of seductions, the risque dialogue and the double-entendres that will eventually find their way to the cutting-room floor. Wrapped in complicated shuttles between heaven and hell, past and present, the play, according to one member of the east who ventured to take a flyer on an explanation, is one great satire; on faddism, on reincarnation, and on satire itself. The main characters are placed, as usual, at the three points of the triangle, and they, with the rest of the cast, are flashed back and forth by the sorcery of one Hector Rigoletto...
...Building is a cozy room with a fireplace, bright red & green hunting prints and a volume of Burke's Landed Gentry. Like many a Big Business headquarters, it looks like the hideout of a country squire. This is the home of The Aviation Corp., once as fabulous a flyer in the realm of high finance as the Great Roc itself...