Word: metropolitane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General practitioners generally get the short end of the stick, in pay and prestige. They also have shorter lives. The mortality rate of specialists is 30% lower than theirs, two Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. statisticians reported last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Looking for reasons, the statisticians guessed that specialists make more money, can afford longer vacations and get better medical care...
Some of the steam was taken out of Billy Rose's pipe dreams last week. The Metropolitan Opera announced that it would be able to have a 1948-49 season after all, and without Billy's help. The season would start late-possibly not until the first of December-and be only 16 or 17 weeks long...
About half the pieces on exhibition had been seen before at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum (TIME, April 14, 1947), which had never before exhibited a one-man show of a living artist. The rest, all done withinć the past 20 years, had been brought from Yugoslavia by his brother Petar. The hit of the Metropolitan show was a 5½ ton Pieta done in the muscular, dramatically contorted tradition of Michelangelo, and too big to transport to Pittsfield. The Berkshire exhibition emphasized Městrović's carved wooden bas-reliefs and single figures whose intensity made...
...summer opera has become a family habit for St. Louisans-from grandma to the kids. Another reason-and perhaps a bigger one-is the quality of its performances. Even a foreign critic from Dallas recently admitted that St. Louis' Municipal Opera is to summer operetta companies "what the Metropolitan is to grand opera." Unlike the Met, however, the Muny has no deficit...
Ever since Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera put up its surprise closing notice, ideas on how to save the Met, and how to improve it, had popped up with the frequency of horn cues in a Wagner opera...