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Someone swore he had heard Conductor Klemperer mutter that the new opera was dreadful. Festival authorities, however, quickly announced that Klemperer "had found the ardors of conducting too strenuous; he has gone to Switzerland to recuperate." They recalled Klemperer's physical troubles after a brain operation years ago (TIME, Aug. 5, 1946); he is still partially paralyzed, and can play the piano only with his left hand. Yet Klemperer conducted a concert in Interlaken two days after walking out of the rehearsal, and he is scheduled to return to Salzburg to conduct a Mahler symphony this week...
...Pilot in the lead by a head. . . . AND it's Jet Pilot by a neck. . . . It's Jet Pilot by half a length. ... Jet Pilot by a length . . . Jet Pilot!" A moment later, through the roar of the crowd was heard a shattered mutter: "What am I talking about?" Then solemnly: "Ladies and gentlemen, I have made a terrific mistake ... I was looking at Phalanx and Jet Pilot disappeared on me. . . . The winner of the race is Faultless." Clem (and, with him, millions of others) had been confused by the similar silks, both predominantly offred, of Faultless...
Claire Gilman, Radcliffe '48, will be the feature attraction of the broadcast. "You've get to preserve this thing," she was heard to mutter recently. Turner indicated that she was referring to Hemo Sapiens...
...They say cleanliness is next to Godliness, but in there its next to impossible," a pretty miss was heard to mutter as she emerged from the door marked "Women" and rejoined her Harvard...
Like Poet T. S. Eliot, Rouault is a pioneer in art who calls himself "a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt. . . ." The old man (75) sees little of young modern artists, some of whom lack his own highly traditional training. Discussing them recently, he was heard to mutter: "Why don't they begin at the beginning...