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TIME'S Jan. 21 People section refers to Maria Callas' impersonating Egypt's Queen Hatshepsut at a charity ball; if memory serves, beloved Queen Hatshepsut [1501 B.C.], as protection against retribution for being a female monarch, was herself forced to resort to disguise. Stone images exhibited in the Egyptian wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art depict her wearing a beard. It would be interesting to know whether Miss Callas' impersonation was authentic to this degree. M. L. PENNEY Chicago...
...shows of regard, were settling down to negotiate a tough and workable agreement whereby 1) the U.S. Air Force would continue to use the key $50 million Saudi Arabian air base at Dhahran, 2) the U.S. would send Saud phased shipments of arms that would strengthen Saud as a monarch but would also increase Saud's value as a stability factor in the Middle East...
...country our Air Force cannot use Jewish men and cannot permit any Roman Catholic Chaplain to say Mass. [Saud is not] the kind of person we want to recognize in New York City." This Wagnerian fortissimo did not dampen the Navy's 21-gun salute for the monarch in New York harbor. But it did win Wagner the back of the hand from President Eisenhower at his press conference (see below...
...among his friends, but toward the public he was shy. He shunned personal honors and shrank from personal publicity (he never granted a formal interview in his life). He was content with the limited kingdom of concert hall and home, and in that kingdom he was as absolute a monarch as ever lived. He was the highest-salaried classical conductor in history (up to $9,000 for a single broadcast). He had little interest in money as such, but proudly insisted musicians should be well paid as a measure of their worth. Though he sometimes acted like a savage...
...Urquhart, then a young zoologist on the museum's staff, began trying to label Monarch butterflies to find out how far they fly. He soon ran into tagging trouble. A label that sticks firmly to a Monarch's wing is apt to make it aerodynamically unstable...