Word: metropolitane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ranging elsewhere in the face of overwhelming odds, the local Tildens will find the Cambridge courts behind Dunster House and the Metropolitan District Commission courts further down the River opposite Braves Field, open to the public free of charge. Unfortunately the city has gotten tired of footing the bill for pilfered nets, and players must bring their...
...shepherd, grew up to be a religious mystic. But unlike Giotto, Městrović is no innovator. In manner as well as in spirit, he is traditional. But U.S. citizens who know him best for the mounted Indians on Chicago's Congress Street Plaza will find his Metropolitan sculptures quite different. Among them: a 5½-ton Pietà, a contorted and agonized Job, a doubled-up heaven-staring figure of Despair. There is also a series of scriptural stories told in wood relief, which Městrović prefers for biblical subjects because it is "more living...
Curve Down. The latest figures showed a definite reversal of the rising curve of cancer deaths (though not of the number of cancer sufferers) among U.S. white men & women. Last year, reported the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., the cancer death rate among its women policyholders dropped to a new low-78.9 per 100,000 (v. 90 per 100,000 a decade ago). In the past five years, the male death rate had also fallen slightly (from 86.8 to 85 per 100,000). Chief reasons for the reduced death rate: early diagnosis and treatment by surgery. The biggest drop...
...Present. Now the U.S. would have to decide how it felt about her. Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Association nervously sniffed the wind before making up its mind whether to ask its old star back. The New York Sun's critic Irving Kolodin thought it should not. To him, it was all right for Flagstad to hire a hall where the public could buy tickets or stay away; it was something else for her to sing at the Met, where the public buys season tickets months in advance, and has to accept whatever singers the management offers. Added Kolodin...
...explanation that did not satisfy such protesters as the Metropolitan Opera, Fiorello LaGuardia or Arturo Toscanini. Toscanini, longtime friend of Puccini, made public his telegram to President Truman: "[I] implore you to forbid this greedy diversion of great Italian musical art . . . you, who are a passionate lover of music...