Word: merstein
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...wardroom. Navy Seabees were bus ily installing a saltwater conversion plant which would ease the perennial water shortage, thus doing away with the "honeypot" latrines that have created a gleaming yellow man-made gla cier in the middle of the base. Navymen naturally echo the Rodgers-and«Ham-merstein plaint, "We ain't got dames," but ham radio at least gives them a chance to talk to wives and girls back home at less than the cost of a normal Stateside long-distance call. McMurdo's post office has even sprouted ZIP Code...
...Chicago Opera Company, as all know, sprang out of the storied Ham- merstein venture. The formidable Oscar, putting on opera at the Man- hattan Opera House of New York, gave the Metropolitan management many bad dreams. But Hammerstein had no millionaires behind him. Opera war cost money. Finally he sold out to the Metropolitan. His chief orchestra conductor had been the shrewd and able Cleofonte Campanini, who now took the Hammerstein idea to Chicago. Chicago is the natural enemy of New York. Chicago would rival New York on the heights of opera. Campanini understood Americans as no American understands them...
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