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...have pushed west to the Hudson, cut off the half of Washington's forces still posted at the lower end of the island, and, says Bliven, "the chances were that he would have won the war then and there." But pleasure-loving General Howe stopped for "cakes and Madeira" at Mrs. Murray's on Murray Hill. Washington's men got safely away to Harlem Heights with the loss of only about 50 casualties and 300 prisoners, and the next morning fresh Ranger scouts, led by Lieut. Colonel Thomas Knowlton of Bunker Hill fame, started up the action...
...went into the mines during high-school vacations, studied mining engineering at Penn State ('24). After graduation, he went back to the pits, by 1936 worked up from assistant foreman to general manager of Madeira Hill & Co., later became president of Phoenix Contracting...
...Tenor Howard Vandenburg arrived unannounced, auditioned and was hired on the spot. All over Europe, and especially in Germany, young American singers are singing for European audiences, hoping to follow in the paths of such Europe-polished Americans as Coloratura Mattiwilda Dobbs, Mezzo-Soprano Risë Stevens, Contralto Jean Madeira and Bass-Baritone George London to the roster of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera...
...Jean Madeira (nee Browning), 37, got her first urge to sing the part when she heard the opera as a child in St. Louis. She started out, however, as a piano student with her piano-teacher mother. She wanted to continue her studies at Manhattan's Juilliard School, but a Juilliard piano teacher told her: "If I had a voice like that I would go into opera-you can always play the piano." Jean took the advice, and eight years later was hired by the Met. Once she sang Carmen from the Met stage, but only in a student...
...house vibrated with ecstatic shouting, and she was a star. One cast member counted 45 curtain calls. The less-demonstrative Met was not so generous last week when the curtain came down (on St. Patrick's Day) on its new Carmen (only about 15 calls), but happy Jean Madeira was serenaded with applause and pelted with green carnations. "I'd be glad to sing Carmen for the rest of my life," she said. But the Met, to the benefit of opera lovers, has other plans as well for its new star...