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...performed operas such as Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, and it was Tibbett, a longtime champion of English-language opera, who created the baritone roles in such contemporary American operas as Deems Taylor's The King's Henchman and Peter Ibbetson. To the title role of Louis Gruen-berg's The Emperor Jones he brought an eerie sense of terror, sending his great voice booming among the dwarfish, treelike forms that grew grotesquely on the Met's shadowy stage...
When Riklis' group began buying into Gruen Watch Co. and gained seven seats on the twelve-seat board, a squabble broke out. Riklis got out, saying: "I do not like to fight." His group bought into Cincinnati's Rapid Electrotype Co., a maker of mats and printing plates that was worth $3.800,000 and had liquid assets of $1,900,000. Riklis then issued debentures to raise $6,500,000, used part of it to get the controlling interest in another firm he was acquiring-Chicago's American Colortype Co., a producer of color plates. His next...
...called to the telephone, delighted the company with her breezy informality by piping: "Excuse me, I have to go. My husband is calling me." Touring an American National Red Cross center with Red Cross President Alfred Gruenther, she asked if blood donors later got brandy with their coffee. General Gruen-ther told her no, added: "I understand you've got quite a brandy in Greece." Said Her Majesty: "It's dynamite...
...difficulty in present urban forms, Gruen said, is that the twofold purposes of streets--providing shopping centers as well as a rapid flow of traffic--are antithetical. According to his plan, residential "clusters" of buildings would form "constellations" around a social center. Traffic would emerge from these clusters into "freeways," and then into large loop and belt arteries...
Reviewing Gruen's plan, Juan Luis Sert, Dean of the Graduate School of Design and chairman of last night's discussion, expressed the hope that the conference, which ends today, would result in a "clear and concise statement about planning philosophy...