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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First Impressions (book by Abe Burrows; music and lyrics by Robert Goldman. Glenn Paxton and George Weiss; choreography by Jonathan Lucas). Take a masterpiece. Tear out half its pages. Stuff the empty places with songs and dances. Rebind in expensive period finery. Open on Broadway, and pray that it is another My Fair Lady...
...hours, seven sopranos, two mezzos, four baritones, a tenor and a bass worked their way through arias from Mozart, Massenet, Verdi, Wagner. Then, while audience and contestants stepped up to Sherry's Bar for a breather, Bing retired to his office with the other judges, half an hour later came out with the names of the winners. The Met decided to award two contracts-to Tacoma's 30-year-old Baritone Roald Reitan and 20-year-old, Toronto-born Soprano Teresa Stratas. Baritone Reitan, who was turned down by a Met scout four years ago when he auditioned...
...everyday U.S. diet-"Sunday dinner is no longer special . . . We have Sunday every day." Americans who used to get an estimated 30% of their daily calories in fats now get 40% or more in that form; Keys recommends a cutback to between 25% and 30%. More important, only about half of this fat should be saturated (the chemists' way of saying that the available carbon atoms in the molecule all have hydrogen atoms attached), and the rest unsaturated...
...help the housewife translate all these dietetic data into dishes, Margaret Keys has filled half the book with menus for every day for all four seasons, and recipes for everything from almond cakes to zucchini...
Fear of Mom. In both Britain and the U.S., hospitals that allow rooming-in by mothers can be counted on the fingers. (In practice, because of work or being tied down by other children, only about half the mothers can take advantage of the chance to room in.) But despite the obvious success of pioneer British programs, many hospital staffs strongly oppose extending the plan. Main reason is fear of mom. Complained one nurse: "You just can't do things that have to be done, when mothers are around." Another: "Mothers can be very difficult, in some cases because...