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CRIME president Cliff F. Thompson stepped out of his room, his face blue with cold, and swore a great oath at the Farmers Almanac for predicting the coldest winter of the century, James R. Ilgenfritz, president of New England Storm and Screen windows, for making it come true, and Radcliffe's Dean Lacey for removing the only available heating system...
...regarding businessmen in Government has grown muddled. The original conflict-of-interests statute, enacted in 1917, has been enforced sometimes, disregarded at other times, depending on the political climate. In 1949 the Senate refused to confirm Carl Ilgenfritz to the $14,800-a-year post of Munitions Board chairman on the ground that Ilgenfritz refused to relinquish his regular $70,000-a-year salary as a vice president of U.S. Steel...
...which seldom looks a gift source in the mouth, took a long, hard look at Composer Ilgenfritz' operas and at its red-inked account books. Last week the board of directors announced its decision. The operas are competently written, said a spokesman, but "under the circumstances and as a matter of policy, the bequest should not be accepted...
...according to McNair Ilgenfritz' will, the offer will go, successively, to London's Covent Garden, Sadler's Wells, the Paris Opéra, the Paris Opéra-Comique, and the opera houses of Monte Carlo, Nice and Brussels. If, after 21 years, none accepts the bequest, the money will go to a memorial foundation to build a concert hall in Newport, R.I., where Ilgenfritz used to spend his summers...
Last spring, at 66, Composer Ilgenfritz died without hearing whether or not the Met liked his operas. But he saw to it that the opera would not forget about them: he left the Met the bulk of his estate on condition that it would perform one of them. Last week an inventory of the estate was filed, and it appeared that the Met was in line for some $150,000 if it met Composer Ilgenfritz' condition...