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...most depressing pages in C.I., though, are its advertisement. "We're turning outstanding graduates into managers, "boasts one, a little distressingly. "Whatever you want to do in life, you can do at Metropolitan Life," says another. A third has this observation to make...
...gold curtain rises on Verdi's La Forza del Destino at the Metropolitan Opera this season, it does more than unveil the first act set: it also reveals a bright new star in rapid ascent. As Leonora, Soprano Leona Mitchell, 34, sings with smoldering intensity. Each performance mingles sweet lyricism with raw-edged emotion that brings audiences to their feet, shouting bravas and tossing bouquets. From a dutiful but passionate daughter to the pathetic, penitent recluse at the end of the opera, Mitchell recalls Leontyne Price in the quality and dramatic power of her performance...
DIED. Maxwell Joseph, 72, entrepreneur who founded Britain's eighth largest publicly owned company, Grand Metropolitan Ltd.; of cancer; in London. Starting in 1944 with a single London hotel, he parlayed an investment of a few thousand dollars into an empire that includes hotels, restaurants, catering, dairies, one of the world's largest wine and spirit companies and a vast gambling network. An avid gardener and stamp collector, the hotel tycoon managed to work a mere four hours a day and once said, "I do not want to become a prisoner of wealth, weighed down by responsibility...
Indeed not. The issue is money. Since buying WPCQ from Cable News Network Founder Ted Turner for $20 million in 1980, Group W has battled ineffectually to push its local and national evening-news ratings above a hopelessly unprofitable 1% to 2% of metropolitan Charlotte's 236,000 TV households. By comparison, CBS-affiliated WBTV and ABC-linked WSOC-TV each draw ten times as many news viewers, albeit on VHP channels that are easier to tune in than WPCQ's UHF signal, Channel 36. WPCQ's troubles are compounded by three nearby NBC affiliates whose signals...
Another pity, both in New York and the six other American and Canadian cities Montand will visit on his six-week tour, is that he is booked into such huge theaters. The Metropolitan, for example, seats about 4,000; the Olympia in Paris, where Montand is accustomed to playing, holds only 2,100. The Metropolitan Opera House was designed for grand opera, not intimacy and even Montand's considerable charm is not large enough to fill it, or the other vast halls he will be playing...