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Braving the wrath of a doting papa, heavyweight Wagnerian Diva Helen Traubel had some grim memories (in the Ladies' Home Journal) about her three years (1948-51) as teacher to semi-retired Soprano Margaret Truman. Not only was [Margaret's] voice "inexperienced and rather bad," said Traubel, but her own stature in the musical world went heavily down "for ever having my name connected with such a musical aspirant. My first, greatest and unconquerable difficulty with Margaret's voice was simply keeping her on key. There simply was not enough of everything-or of anything to make...
...such intellectual moment as the birth of a Lippmann column, the setting is deceptively casual. Lippmann, a lean, angular and agile man of 69. is dressed carelessly in his writing habit: grey pullover sweater, corduroy slacks, white wool socks and loafers. He has taken breakfast with his wife Helen, a handsome woman decidedly Lippmann's intellectual peer. He has paid brief but fond attention to his French poodles, Vicky and Coquet. He has concluded thoughtful tours of three morning papers, with stops at all the international datelines. Across Woodley Road and through his study windows drifts the gay, playtime...
Behind those pronouncements lie 45 years of uninterrupted heavy thinking. Walter Lippmann never stops thinking, not even when scrambling around the Maine rocks with Helen at their summer place near Bar Harbor. "Walter," fretted his wife one day as he tripped over a boulder, "look. Don't think." For Lippmann, this is the idlest advice. He cannot help thinking. Where other journalists run after the news, Lippmann prefers to ponder...
...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A drama that painfully parallels Chicago's recent parochial school tragedy. An accidental fire that burns down part of a Catholic home for small girls provides a coldhearted mother superior (Helen Hayes) with a startling excuse to warm up to the kid who caused the trouble...
...Touch of the Poet. A garrulous, alcoholic innkeeper, his dream world gone awry, gives Playwright Eugene O'Neill an excuse for a little too much talk, but the evening still adds up to fine theater. With Eric Portman, Helen Hayes, Kim Stanley...