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...Livingston County Historical Society...
...Mario, Richard Bonelli, eight others who graduated to the Metropolitan) their first big opportunities. His latest cause for pride is pretty, blonde Soprano Dorothy Kirsten, who brought a fresh, appealing voice and promising style to her Mimi, Micaela and Nedda during the last fortnight. A former telephone girl from Livingston, N.J., she later did secretarial work and scrubbed floors to pay for singing lessons. Grace Moore met her in a radio studio, took her in hand, got her into the Chicago Opera Company. Says Fortune Gallo of her: "You will find her in the Metropolitan...
Among the offers he received was one from a Radcliffe girl who thought the bagpipes might relieve her boredom, one from the third Eliot House crew which wanted the coxswain to exhort the men with them, and another from Huey Livingston, the Scotch janitor of Memorial Hall...
Next spring he set out on a round trip to New Orleans-"the voyage from which all Western historians date the commence ment of steam navigation in the Mississippi Valley." The trip took nine days. Again Livingston seized the boat, again Shreve demanded bond...
...Livingston offered Shreve a half interest in the monopoly, equal credit with Fulton in inventing the steamboat. When Shreve refused, Livingston had him arrested. Nevertheless, only two days behind schedule Shreve steamed out of New Orleans. "The monopoly's helplessness was farcical." In 1819 the Fulton-Livingston company withdrew all claim to a monopoly. "News of this surged up every stream. The Mississippi was free! Henry Shreve had battered the barrier down." In the next two years 60 steamboats were built on the River...