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...capital investment. The public has proved its eagerness to give generously to charitable organizations which enjoy its trust. To date the question whether this trust is justified has not been raised. However, several sources, including two Rockefeller reports published in 1945 and 1960, and two recent articles by John Lear in the Saturday Review, and Dr. Robert Hamlin, an Associate Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, present disturbing evidence of inefficiency and mismanagement among voluntary charitable health agencies...
...Lear's specific analysis of the operations of several voluntary health agencies is hardly more comforting. According to his article, James V. Lavin, president of the Massachusetts Branch of the American Cancer Society, divided his time between the Society and his own fund-raising agency which competed with it, receiving considerable income from both organizations. Several of Lavin's chief subordinates in the Society suffered from similar division of interests. Only through sustained pressure from a member of the board of directors did the Massachusetts Cancer Society make an even nominal change in this situation...
...Kean play King Lear, said Coleridge, "is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning." To see Alfred Drake, in his one lamentable lapse of the evening, act Othello is to read Shakespeare by the flash of a lightning bug. Drake is more than a star; he is a galaxy. Whether he is profile-preening for an expected lady love, slashing the air with his fencing foil, or parrying insults with the Prince of Wales, he has all the darkling dash, swagger and brio of a Renaissance man. He pours his voice like nut-brown ale through a melodic sieve...
...Opera Berlin last week, "a triumph awaits you." As a prophet, Baritone Thomas Stewart was only half right. For their roles in Composer Giselher Klebe's opera Alkmene, a modern version of the Amphitryon legend, triumph awaited both Texas-born Stewart and his wife. Brooklyn-born Soprano Evelyn Lear. Raved the influential Frankfurter Algemeine: "What Evelyn Lear as Alkmene and Thomas Stewart as Jupiter attained belongs among the most glorious achievements in all Berlin opera...
Such unstinting European praise has greeted Soprano Lear and Baritone Stewart ever since they stopped knocking truitlessly on impresarios' doors in the U.S. four years ago. Schooled in borscht belt hotels and summer stock, they both won Fulbright scholarships and in 1957 entered Berlin's Hochschule für Musik. There they were discovered by Director Carl Ebert of the Berlin City Opera (predecessor of the Deutsche Opera Berlin), who signed them both for his company. Their debuts-Stewart's as Escamillo in Carmen in 1958. Lear's as the Composer in Ariadne the next year...