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MILDRED MILLER, sprightly, Cleveland-born soprano, who made her Met debut as Cherubino in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro a fortnight...
HILDE GUEDEN, Vienna-trained soprano, who made her Met debut a fortnight ago as the girlish Gilda in Rigoletto, and will sing her first Rosalinda in Fledermaus this week, with Patrice as Adele...
...some other standout performers to work with. All-America Bill McColl, a 6 ft. 4 in. end who specializes in quick-step feinting and circus catches, leads the conference in pass receiving-35 for seven touchdowns. Searching his team for a fireworks runner, Taylor found him a fortnight ago when 21-year-old Fullback Bob Mathias, Olympic decathlon champion, broke loose with a 96-yd. kick-off runback that broke the back of favored Southern California. Mathias, a junior who just turned out for football this year, "could play at any position on the team," says Taylor...
...first fortnight as U.S. Ambassador to India, ex-Adman Chester Bowles gave signs of being a revolution in diplomacy and a revelation to New Delhi. He got off to an auspicious start by forgetting to pack his striped pants and morning coat. For the formal presentation of his credentials to India's President Rajendra Prasad, Bowles borrowed a pair of suspenders from his public-affairs officer, and a morning coat (too tight) and striped trousers (too big) from the Italian ambassador...
Boom! Boom! Boom! A fortnight ago, after a rugged game against Brown-a game which Kazmaier won, 12-0, with touchdown sprints of 13 and 61 yards on a field piebald with mud and snow-Trainer Eddie Zanfrini gave Caldwell the casualty report, ending with: "My gosh, Kaz is black and blue all over." But Dick is durable. In three years of varsity competition, he has missed only one sequence of plays (two minutes) when he was needed. That time he was knocked cold...