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Early last month Cincinnati music-lovers were told that for the first time in 20 summers there would be no opera in the lion-loud, peacock-shrill Cincinnati Zoo. Reason: insufficient funds. A bunch of Cincinnati youngsters went to work, this week announced that they had raised $7,000, more than enough to insure zooperations next month...
...market looks right next week, U.S. investors will get a chance to buy the U.S.'s No. 1 rayon company-American Viscose. Owned by tight-lipped Britons until the British Treasury's Sir Edward Peacock sold it to a group of Manhattan investment bankers in March (TIME, March 24), Viscose has long been the Madame X of U.S. corporations...
...Varsity race Syracuse shot into a temporary lead at the start when their stroke hiked the beat up very high as the four crews pulled away from the stakeboats. At the quarter, though, the prow of the Crimson Peacock shell was out in front, and it stayed there for the rest of the mile and three-quarters...
...ROSCOE PEACOCK President...
...gave tongue to the great Requiem of Giuseppe Verdi. When the long work reached its hushed close, 4,000 people applauded. Few of them had ever heard the like. Next afternoon and evening, they sat down to easier music. Punch-pleased were Columbians by their seventh music festival. And peacock-proud were they of the outfit which had engineered the festival: the town's own Southern Symphony, the only 100% professional outfit in the Southeast...