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There remains the Lillie. In the circumstances, it is clearly no accident that she is at her best when she speaks not a word; for lamentable are many of the words she has to speak, or-worse yet-to trill. Indeed, that chill stare of hers, suggesting an insulted mermaid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Mar. 11, 1957 | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

¶ A 45-minute operatic treatment of Honoré de Balzac's spine-tingler La Grande Bretêche, with music by California-born Stanley Hollingsworth, 32, pupil and protégé of Gian Carlo Menotti. Commissioned by the NBC Opera Company, Bretêche closely follows the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Moderns at Work | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

¶ A 20-minute symphonic poem by Chicago-born Pulitzer Prizewinning Composer Ernst Bacon, 58, with narration based on Paul Horgan's Pulitzer Prizewinning book Great River: The Rio Grande. Commissioned two years ago by the Dallas Symphony and performed under Walter Hendl, Rio Grande proved to be a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Moderns at Work | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

NBC Opera (Sun. 3 p.m., NBC). Premiere of La Grande Bretèche, an opera composed for NBC by Stanley Hollingsworth from a Balzac story (color).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Feb. 11, 1957 | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

Other railroaders are learning to put the miracles of modern science to use-and are developing new ones on their own. Just as roads have switched over 90% from steam to diesel power, so they are now looking for ways to improve on the economical diesel itself. The Union Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE NEW AGE OF RAILROADS | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

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