Word: ops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stood shyly in the living room of a house in Paris' Rue du Bois. Bear-like Composer Claude Debussy ambled in, sat down at a piano with his back to her. "You are Mlle. Teyte?" "Yes, sir." "You are Mlle. Teyte-of the Opéra-Comique?" "Yes, sir." "Eh bien, we will start here." Before they had run through the first act of his one & only opera Pelléas et Mélisande, Debussy hustled out to shout to his wife, "Here is a Mèlisande...
...nine months Maggie Teyte studied with Debussy, he hardly said a word to her. ("He was an ogre," says Maggie, "and I was very cold-very English.") But she learned enough from him to take over Mary Garden's role at the Opéra-Comique and make a name for herself as Mèlisande. That was 40 years ago. Last week, although they had often cheered her in recital, Manhattan operagoers finally got to hear Maggie in the role that had first won her fame. It was the first time she had ever sung the full opera...
MARCH OF TIME (Radio), MARCH OP TIME (Cinema), both developed by Roy E. Larsen (TIME'S first non-editorial employee, now president of TIME Inc.), are projections of TIME'S journalistic ideas...
Skippy Minisi, one-time Navy back and current Quaker star, led the League in scoring with 36 points while Venton Yablonski, Columbia's big fullback, counted more points than anyone in the Ivy group if non-Ivy League games are included. Ivy League standings: W L T PCT. PTS OP Pennsylvania 4 0 0 1.000 113 21 Princeton 4 2 0 .667 113 80 Yale 4 2 0 .667 99 79 Columbia 2 2 0 .500 58 51 Dartmouth 3 4 0 .429 74 120 Brown 1 3 0 .250 44 61 Harvard 1 3 0 .250 54 85 Cornell...
...England Inter-collegiate Soccer League, James MacDonald's 1947 Crimson booters finished in a tie for fourth place with Wesleyan's Red and Black. Leading the League for the second straight year was Springfield, the physical education college that specializes in soccer. Soccer standings: W L T PCT. PTS OP Springfield 6 0 0 1.000 31 1 Dartmouth 4 1 0 .800 27 5 Univ. of Conn. 6 2 0 .750 31 12 Harvard 5 2 0 .714 24 7 Wesleyan 4 1 2 .714 28 9 Amherst 3 2 1 .583 15 9 Yale...