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...productions too often leave one with memories of fashion on the promenade and little else. But Thursday night's performance of Richard Strauss' "Salome" was a very different story, and a very wonderful one. Singers and orchestra combined under Fritz Reiner's direction to give a really superb reading of Strauss' score and incidentally proved that "Salome" is an unusually fine opera which deserves far better treatment than the austere neglect it received until the Met's revival last month...
...Fritz Zwicky, astronomer, physicist and rocket expert of Caltech, has developed such an engine for the U.S. Navy, which presumably hopes to use it in torpedoes or in anti-submarine devices. The Navy is so excited about it that it won't allow Swiss-born Astronomer Zwicky to open his mouth on the subject. It has also warned Aerojet Engineering Corp. of Azusa, Calif., which is working on the device, to keep it quiet...
...Metropolitan Opera, with the notable help of its new conductor Fritz Reiner, had made a good many of its critics eat their words with a great performance of Salome (TIME, Feb. 14). Last week, the Met and its Maestro Reiner served them another mouthful-and let a nationwide radio audience...
...Deported Fritz Kuhn, 52, prewar U.S. Bundesführer, had lost some weight, but still talked as big as ever. Appealing a ten-year rap as a major Nazi offender before a court in Munich, he bellowed that the Bund had been strictly "an American patriotic organization," had used the swastika only because it was "an old American Indian design," had patterned its uniforms after the U.S. National Guard rather than the SS. As to his 1944 meeting with Hitler: "Purely a social call. If I went to England today, I would naturally like to call on King George...
...third period the prop schoolers went through a brief spasm of scoring, narrowed their deficit for four minutes, and then relapsed into ineffectiveness. Their only consolation was that Fritz Etelman scored 16 points and seven of their 11 field goals...