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...golden horseshoe, and management was not sure from one month to the next whether the curtain would rise again. What saved the Met more than anything else was Mrs. August Belmont's idea for replacing the top hats and tiaras with an auxiliary known as the Metropolitan Opera Guild. In the 25 years since then the guild has grown into the nation's biggest, most dedicated band of opera supporters...
Last week the Met gratefully honored the guild and Mrs. Belmont. Onstage, Barry Morell, Dorothy Kirsten, Leonie Rysanek, Zinka Milanov sang arias from L'Africaine, Louise, Tannhäuser, Bohème, supported by the Met orchestra, chorus and ballet, while Mrs. Belmont, 80, sat in the center box, as firmly as ever part of the Met scene. During intermission. General Manager Rudolf Bing presented to Mrs. Belmont a silver tray with the engraved signatures of the board members and guild staff...
...congratulated upon the forthright and comprehensive article concerning the widespread existence of pollutants which are endangering and undermining the health of our citizens. For the past 20 years, the Health Guild has been warning the public through literature, articles and mass meetings concerning these hazards that are infecting the air, water supplies and foods...
...Health Guild New York City
...since 1958 he has fired ten editorial hands, and seven more have quit in anger. Knowland declared war on overtime, trimmed the Trib's virtually unlimited sick leave. He promoted his son Joe, 30, to overseer at large, and Joe antagonized much of the staff. The American Newspaper Guild, which had long failed to organize the Tribune, succeeded last year. To the guild's surprise. Bill Knowland-who based his gubernatorial campaign on an open-shop labor policy-proved a reasonable adversary...