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...throughout its considerable range, but especially stunning at the top. Mme. Crespin launched into the treacherous Gluck aria with no more visible effort than if she had been singing a Faure chanson. She did, in fact, sing some Faure later in the program, and very nicely, too, but my grosser sensibilities craved another of those absurd and wonderful scenas for dramatic soprano something like "Ozean, du Ungeheuer" from Weber's Oberon...
...UNTO THESE HILLS (Cherokee, N.C.), by Kermit Hunter, has been seen by more than 1,500,000 people in twelve seasons and is the biggest money grosser on the pageant circuit. Dealing with the misfortunes of the Cherokees, it has a 50% Cherokee cast, goes vigorously for the scalp of Andrew Jackson. Early in the play, a Cherokee chieftain heroically saves General Jackson's life at the battle of Horseshoe Bend, but before long, in a scene set in the White House, President Jackson defeathers his old allies, insists on deporting them to Oklahoma despite the eloquent pleas...
...prankster. He particularly disliked Classmate Hugh Dalton, later Chancellor of the Exchequer. On an exam paper asking "What are the oldest parts of the book of Exodus?" Ronald altered Dalton's paper to read "oddest," and the future politico listed all of the grosser passages...
...North Sea overcast one day last week, a flight of planes made repeated runs on a sandbar called Grosser Knechtsand and unloaded 45 bombs. The explosions sent clouds of wild geese honking into the air, more frightened than injured, for the bombs contained only light training charges...
High in the balmy skies over Naples this week, planes from the U.S. Sixth Fleet will proudly spell out the word NATO. In the ancient German garrison town of Mainz, detachments from NATO armies will march in a grosser Zapfenstreich-the torchlight parade that is the German army's version of Britain's famed tattoo. In Washington the foreign ministers of the Atlantic nations are scheduled to sit around a V-shaped table to hear a speech from NATO's first commander, Dwight D. Eisenhower...