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Died. Franklin W. Olin, 91, "the Gunpowder King," retired president and founder of Olin Industries (leading subsidiaries: Western Cartridge Co., Western Brass Mills, Winchester Repeating Arms Co.); after a heart attack; in St. Louis...
...Stravinsky even thought about Firebird (1910), Ives somewhat whimsically deeded to set his Yankee tunes "in counter point with some Bach tunes," as "a sort of bad joke." Joke or not, audience and critics enjoyed the Second as Leonard Bernstein led the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra through it. Olin Downes of the New York Times found parts of it "of unique inspiration and a noble elevation of thought...
...What is this? Constructivist staging or what?" cried New York Times Critic Olin Downes. The Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson was equally dyspeptic; his evening at the Metropolitan Opera House reminded him of "the French chef who in serving a New England boiled dinner had carved the beets like roses and turned turnips into lilies . . ." The critics' ire and ulcers were aroused last week by the Met's new streamlined production of Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, the wonderful old pair of operatic favorites...
Unopposed were Democrats J. W. Fulbright of Arkansas, Walter F. George of Georgia, Olin D. Johnston of South Carolina...
Elected from Walter Hastings to the council were Lessey, Jack E. Hollenberg 3L, Edward H. Snyder 3L, Stanley Rothenberg 1L, and Seymour Levine 2L, Chosen from Story were John Olin 1L, Ernest Oakland 3L, Nathan J. Siegel 3L, and Stuart B. Walser...