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Wall Streeters have grown superstitious about holidays, and with good reason. The crash that ended 1946's bull market followed the long Labor Day weekend. The Memorial Day weekend in 1949 brought another shakeout. But last week the stock market exorcised the hex. In a buying surge the day before Thanksgiving, stocks started up, and kept right on going after the holiday...
...Commuters will throw their Notre Dame hex formation against the Deacons' light squad--the lightest team in House football, with a line averaging 160 pounds. Coach Carl Bottenfield said that his 20 Deacons are "very small." To overcome this, he will employ a special formation used by his coach at Tulsa High School: it is similar to the double wing except that the halfback stands a yard behind the line and a yard outside...
Last week an audience in Plymouth (Mass.) Memorial Hall saw the world premiere of Florence Wickham's The Legend of Hex Mountain. The legend: if the witch Hexi uses her black powers to save a human life, she loses them. But when her son gets in a jam, is threatened with death by the infuriated Amish townspeople, mother love triumphs. She saves him, is threatened with burning at the stake herself. Before that can happen, there is a flash of dazzling light and the ragged hag emerges in shining white, a new woman. She leaves the village...
Composer Wickham had rounded up some old friends, retired Met Bass Léon Rothier and the Met's veteran Hansel and Gretel witch, Dorothee Manski, and some new stars, including Soprano Evelyn (The Medium) Keller, to help put her Hex over. Unhappily, she had failed to decide exactly what kind of music they should all sing. To many a mystified listener, Hex sounded like Faust one moment, Friml's Rose Marie another...
...applause for Hex did not indicate that the opera had stirred up a cyclone. One elderly lady remarked to her companion as they departed: "Well, it was different...