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...cadets at the U.S. Mer chant Marine Academy at Kings Point, L.I. were off to a carnival rather than to regular evening mess. They wore golf caps, bowlers, toppers and turbans. They marched into the mess hall with huge signs saying "Move Over, Annapolis" and "Our Ship Has Come In." The cadets had good reason to celebrate. Last week President Eisenhower signed a bill making Kings Point the nation's fifth permanent service school, thus putting it on a legal par with Annapolis, West Point, and the Air Force and Coast Guard Academies...
...Teresias. But there is also a large quota of safe and popular items-currently a new Madama Butterfly (the seventh on LP) ^and Oistrakh playing Lalo's Symphonic Espagnole. On the chic side, there are exquisite performances of the most sensuous musings of Debussy (Trois Nocturnes, La Mer) and Ravel (Daphnis et Chloe, L'Heure Espagnole}. There are also imposing works of Stravinsky and Bartok...
When it came to Debussy's La Mer, with its enormous orchestral apparatus, the Philharmonia showed the negative side of being a child prodigy. It played all the notes and played them beautifully, and listeners heard unfamiliar details, but somehow the music failed to billow and surge. It was as if a dry land breeze were blowing over Debussy's sea that day. Berlioz' Fantastic Symphony suffered similarly: the fragrant resonances, the languid rubatos and the snarling brasses were there, but the fantasy was hard to find...
...same disadvantages: no regular big-name performers and merely average sound quality. Nonetheless, they operate at a tidy profit, and some are trying hard to improve their wares, e.g., the Book-of-the-Month Club has begun releasing topnotch Angel disks, such as Debussy's La Mer, and has made a deal with New York's Metropolitan Opera for Met cast recordings. Last week Columbia Records, one of the biggest major labels, lowered itself into the mail-order maelstrom, announced its own record club with a million-dollar advertising campaign. In a five-page letter to its dealers...
Finally, Dupuy said, there is the sum- mer camp obstacle. According to the new plan, summer training of ROTC students would be expanded from six to 12 weeks, probably overtaxing the various training camps throughout the country, Dupuy said. This problem is being worked on by the Army right...