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...Though discount selling can be a gold mine, the digging is not without perils. Latest to fall in a hole is Maxwell Henry Gluck, 62, chairman of the 295-branch Grayson-Robinson Stores, which last week acknowledged $10.5 million in overdue debts and asked for-a time extension under the Bankruptcy Act. Gluck, a onetime U.S. Ambassador to Ceylon-he was the one who in 1957 could not remember the name of Ceylon's Prime Minister during a Senate confirmation hearing-two years ago merged his Darling Stores into Grayson-Robinson and rapidly opened 43 discount branches. Expansion cost...
...Overseers approved these term appointments: Walter J. Kaiser '54, assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature; Arnold C. Cooper, assistant professor of Business Administration; Francois C. Vigier, assistant professor of Urban Design; Albert R. Diebold, Jr., assistant professor of Social Anthropology; Jerome H. Kiotz, professor of Statistics; and Gluck, assistant professor of Mathematics...
Maria Callas: Great Arias from French Operas (Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, conducted by Georges Prêtre; Angel). Callas deserts the Italian roles in which she became famous for the heroines of Gluck, Bizet, Gounod, Charpentier. The voice is predictably wobbly in spots, but the interpretations are uniformly superb, suggesting that Callas may still have a new repertory to explore...
Singing magnificently in her rich, bronzelike voice, she began with O del mio dolce ardor, by Gluck, went on to Quella fiamma che m'accende, by Benedetto Marcello, Ständchen and Zueignung, by Richard Strauss. Invitation au Voyage and Le Manoir de Rosamonde, by Henri du Pare, Boatmen's Dance, by Aaron Copland. Out in the Fields with God, by William Dawson...
EILEEN FARRELL, 41, made her leisurely way to the Metropolitan last season, long after critics had conceded she was the best dramatic soprano in America. "It didn't give me any special satisfaction to sing at the Met," she said coolly after her debut in Gluck's Alcestis. "I never had any great drive to be a singer." The drive may not have been great, but almost from the start the singing was. A onetime successful radio singer, with her own show, Farrell soon branched into recitals and concert-form operas, where she displayed a warm, vibrant voice...