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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Irmgard Seefried Sings (accompanied by Erik Werba; Decca). Schumann's Frauenliebe und Leben and nine songs by Mozart sung with grace, liquid power and a rainbow of colorations that few singers can match. With a fine dramatic sense to match her voice, Soprano Seefried makes this one of the year's most appealing recorded song recitals...
Behind the Screams. The public outcries of protest against the plan from both Greece and Turkey did not match the private qualifications of those officials who realize that intransigence on both sides has got out of hand. While Greeks protested that there was no promise of future "self-determination," the Greek government was ready to go along with any compromise acceptable to Greek Orthodox Archbishop Makarios, leader of the enosis movement (the British were expected to allow the exiled Makarios to return to Cyprus). Although the Turks started riots on the grounds that the plan failed to provide for "partition...
...Britain, whisper it gently," breathed the Times of London, "may today win the Wightman Cup." But one match the Times was ready to concede to the U.S. was between World Champion Althea Gibson and a strapping, 17-year-old blonde named Christine Truman. Christine had got the British team off to a promising start by beating second-ranking U.S. Tennist Dorothy Knode, but did not seem in the same class with Althea. "To expect Miss Truman to defeat Miss Gibson," said the Times sadly, "would be to expect anarchy...
...short career. Her powerful forehand was unbeatable, her sliced backhand was too cute for Althea to handle, her serve had a vicious hop. And as her confidence grew, her shots sharpened. She ran Althea off the court, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. It was the decisive match; Christine and her teammates forthwith walked off with the Wightman Cup (4-3) for the first time in 28 years...
...taken in. Twain regarded religious relics and purported miracles as "frauds" and "swindles": "I find a piece of the true cross in every old church I go into, and some of the nails that held it together." The Sea of Galilee was "this puddle," and no match for Lake Tahoe. Of the Hellespont, Twain wrote: "I don't think much of Leander, now, who swam the Hellespont to see his squaw ... I could swim that creek with all my property on my back...