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Although it came in the first week of the Met's 78th season, Meistersinger was not the opener. For that occasion the Met chose Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chénier, which is not a great opera-or even a very good one. Chénier, as General Manager Rudolf Bing candidly admitted, was the right length for an opener, and it had enough intermissions (three) to give first-nighters plenty of touring time in corridors, restaurant and lobbies. With Tenor Franco Corelli and Soprano Eileen Farrell in the lead roles, Chénier gave the audience...
...since it was established in 1930. Anslinger was widely criticized for his inflexible enforcement policies, was dubbed "The Untouchable" by his critics. But his departure from the scene ends neither the controversy nor his policies. Last week Anslinger's duties were taken over by his deputy, Henry L. Giordano, 48, a tough enforcement officer since 1941 and an Anslinger protege who agrees with most of his old boss's views. Says Giordano : "We're in favor of increased rehabilitation, and always have been. But that doesn't mean we have to be any easier...
...others: Ethnographer Antonio de Almeida, 61, Portugal (Roman Catholic); Chemist George de Hevesy, 75, born in Hungary, now living in Sweden (Roman Catholic); Physiologist Sir John Carew Eccles, 58, Australia (Roman Catholic); Geneticist Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, 71, England (Church of England); Chemist Giordano Giacomello, 71, Italy (Roman Catholic); Victor Francis Hess, 77, Austrian-born physicist who taught (1938-51) at New York's Fordham University (Roman Catholic); Chemist Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, 63, England (Church of England); Domenico Marotta, 74, director of the Superior Institute of Health, Rome (Roman Catholic). There are no Jews because, according to Academy...
Possibly St. Robert Bellarmine was "a human bridge." But he was far less "trampled upon" than himself a trampler. He was connected with the Inquisition which, among its other crimes, was responsible for the horrible burning of the heretic philosopher, Giordano Bruno. It is a terrible sort of separation of church and state that makes it possible for the church to turn over a heretic to be burned by the secular...
...Lowell. Winthrop's negative team of James E. Price '58 and Richard C. Stillman '58 defeated Kirkland's Maurice G. Ford '58 and Robert Lifson '57. Adams, represented by William C. Brady '57, Sherwood Waldron '58, and Robert E. Ausnit '57 lost to David F. Hayes '58, Anthony P. Giordano '58, and Henry L. Tafe '58, who upheld the affirmative for Dudley. Leverett's affirmative, composed of James H. Reiss '58, Alan Merson '56 and Lindsay Fischer '56, defeated the Eliot team of Jack Banton '57, Jack Quinlan '57, and Lindsay Fischer...