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Aida has had her face lifted. The stunning new decor and costumes by Rolf Gerard, and the dramatic staging of Margaret Webster demonstrate that Broadway techniques can effectively be applied to grand opera. The height of voluptuousness came in the first scene of Act Two. Blanche Thebom may not be the world's most beautiful Amneris, but when I saw her lounging on her divan being fanned and bathed by dozens of slaves, I couldn't help wondering why Radames chose the rotund Aida instead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Metropolitan Opera | 4/24/1952 | See Source »

Referring to present successes in keeping various human organisms alive out side the body. Dr. Ralph W. Gerard, professor of Physiology at the University of Chicago, said he believed that these proceases could be improved. Some day, he continued, reproductive organs will be kept alive in test tubes, and the next step will be mating a sperm and an egg in a glass container...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kluckhohn Says Women Unhappy In 'Conference of Future' Speech | 3/29/1952 | See Source »

...achievement of more harmonious relations between the student body and the dining hall system, it would be highly desirable that the former take a more mature approach to the situation, and that the latter pay more attention in the future to its public relations. Eric Kilnger '54 Gerard P. Murphy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Group Cooperation | 3/5/1952 | See Source »

Johnny breaks down, but Gerard refuses to turn back. They hit a dirt track pitted with deep holes which must be taken in first gear. Then comes a stretch of washboard to be crossed at 50 m.p.h. so that the truck will skim over the crests of the ridges. One of his shock-absorbers, Gerard discovers, has been sabotaged by another man who hoped to get the assignment. Farther on, Gerard and Johnny barely miss a collision with a truck carrying the other half of the nitro. In one village, both trucks are misled to a side road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Not for Maiden Aunts | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

...climax comes when the second truck explodes in a soaring white flash. Gerard, by sacrificing his partner, pushes on to Zulaco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Not for Maiden Aunts | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

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