Word: metropolitane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less conciliatory. Tass, the Soviet news agency, denounced "General Douglas MacArthur for "crude interference" with the Orthodox Church in Japan-i.e., refusing to cooperate in a Soviet effort to take over the Japanese Orthodox Church. A year ago the Japanese church, which has 35,000 members, asked Metropolitan Theophilus of San Francisco, head of the U.S. church, to send a spiritual leader to Japan...
Although relying on bikes for spread and ease of travel, the HOCers are not above the most ancient method of transportation. Hikes, which start with the Boston subways conveying the walkers to the outskirts of the metropolitan area, have taken the HOC to the Blue Hills and the Lynn woods...
...cost projects such as his 600-house Channel Heights project in San Pedro, Calif. Says he: "I have . . . always felt that it was the job of ours and the next following generation to make true the promise of the [industrial] revolution . . . the promise of a general exodus from our metropolitan slums, from rural hovels and, in short, from the pre-industrial standards of living and housing. . . . Whatever we design today . . . has its true contemporary significance only if it does not aim at uniqueness but an applicability for [mass] production...
Died. Grace Moore, 45, bubbling, blonde hillbilly girl (selfstyled) who became one of the Metropolitan Opera's first-string divas (Mimi, Tosca), took Hollywood in stride (One Night of Love), toured operatic and concert stages the world over; in a plane crash; in Copenhagen (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5 p.m., ABC). Puccini's Madame Butterfly, with Soprano Licia Albanese, Tenor Charles Kullmann, Contralto Lucielle Browning...