Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little office on North Clark Street in Chicago, two men met to talk business. The deal: how to muscle into the thriving Chicago Restaurant Association and take control of it. Said James Weinberg to Paul ("Needle Nose") Labriola: "We'll have to kill Teitelbaum, but we don't want a big uproar in the papers. We'll push him out of his office window. He's in income-tax trouble, and everybody will think it was suicide...
...hung on to the same Premier (Socialist Guy Mollet) for six months now. Two weeks ago the Mollet government gave France the bad tax news to accompany the increase in old-age pensions that the Assembly recently approved. This will add $400 million to the tax bill, to be met by surtaxes on salaries, by an added six francs on the price of every aperitif, and by a special tax on automobiles, rigged to discriminate against U.S. cars. (Cars with less than 16 h.p. will be taxed $9 to $23 a year; cars above 16 h.p.-none are mass-produced...
...faced Cinemadman Mischa (Something Always Happens) Auer. He 1) broke an arm in a fall off a low stool, 2) then suffered a deep cut on his rump in a tumble from bed as he reached for a bottle (mineral water), 3) on rising from his bed of pain, met a friend whose hearty get-well backslap dislocated Auer's shoulder...
...this invitingly gaudy material Composer Moore has wrought a clean, melodious score which succeeds in conveying strong period flavor without being condescendingly folksy. Its melodic high spots include Baby Doe's Willow Song, the stunning Silver Song (sung by Met Coloratura Dolores Wilson) and a moving choral, Lovely Evening. Sophisticated musically, the score nevertheless is marked by a clarity rare to the U.S. opera stage. "Most composers today seem to be writing under such influences as Schoenberg and Stravinsky," says Moore. "I tried to return to melody as the key to communication." Others will get a chance to decide...
...team. A few months later, he was surprised when it was granted, with only one restriction: no photographs of military installations. In China, he roamed for ten weeks from Canton to Manchuria, interviewing Chinese and making a photographic record of whatever he saw. During five weeks in Peking, he met ten of the 16 remaining U.S. prisoners of war who chose to stay in Red China after the Korean truce. At People's University, where they are dragging out their third lonely year studying the Chinese language, he was allowed to take the pictures shown here. Pabel found...