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Father Eugene O'Malley was rehearsing the Paulist Choir of Chicago's St. Mary's Church, and the sound and fury was something his 100-odd choristers took in stride. He ranged up and down the basement rehearsal hall like a restless spirit, his ears stretching for sour notes and his eyes for inattention. "Watch me!" he shouted. "If you don't watch me, you'll go flying out of here so fast you won't know what happened to you!" Suddenly he swooped. "You're flat! You're throwing everyone else...
...Civic Opera House, celebrating the famed choir's soth anniversary, such a thing as a flat tone was unthinkable. The program, which ranged from Palestrina to Stravinsky, produced a fortissimo reaction from the music critics. "Cool, thin, silver tone . . . timeless patina," said the Tribune. Said Paulist O'Malley: "It was one of the finest concerts I've ever conducted...
...Nerve. This was no small thing to say, for St. Mary's Paulist Choir is one of the best in the world. It was well known in 1914, when twelve-year-old Eugene O'Malley first thought of joining it. He had read about its triumphal tour of Europe two years before, when it sang before Pope Pius X.* For years young O'Malley had been practicing the piano and going to almost every concert and opera in Chicago. At his tryout he sang Gounod's Ave Maria straight through with such solemn precision that Father...
...last week, Charley Dressen learned an old baseball lesson that he should have known by heart: losers are expendable. O'Malley said all the right things-how Brooklyn would miss him, and how, if Charley changed his mind, he could have his job again, for a year. But by next day the front-office line had a fare-thee-well note to it. Said O'Malley: "It is inconceivable to me that Charley would humiliate himself and ask for a one-year contract at this point...
...agreed to manage the seventh-place Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast League next year, the same team he led to a pennant in 1950. The Dodgers seemed in no hurry to replace him. "I might say the woods are full of managers," said Walter O'Malley...