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...argument that opera can be popular and as easy to take as musical comedy. In the next weeks, the company, 100 strong including a 41-man orchestra, will do 54 performances of Figaro and Puccini's Madame Butterfly, sometimes in communities as small as Lake Charles, La. and Pittsburg, Kans. If there is a customer for every seat at every performance, the tour will still lose at least $150,000. But if the company makes that many new aficionados for opera, NBC will consider the money well spent...
...Arkansas City (Kans.) Traveler, Grand Island (Neb.) Independent, Independence (Mo.) Examiner, Maryville (Mo.) Daily Forum, Nevada (Mo.) Daily Mail, Newton (Kans.) Kansan, Pittsburg (Kans.) Headlight and Sun, Santa Maria (Calif.) Times, Shawnee (Okla.) News Star, Topeka (Kans.) State Journal, York (Neb.) News-Times, and stations KSOK, Arkansas City, Kans., KSEK, Pittsburg, Kans., KGFF, Shawnee, Okla. † For other news of the President's birthplace, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Died. Judge John Tate Raulston, 87, Tennessee county judge who presided at the celebrated Scopes "monkey trial" (1925); in South Pittsburg, Tenn. A Fundamentalist himself, Raulston helped get Biology Instructor John Scopes, 24, indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution to his county high-school class by reading the opening chapters of Genesis to the grand jurors of Bible-belt Rhea County, presided at the trial as Defense Lawyer Clarence Darrow relentlessly badgered Special Prosecuting Attorney William Jennings Bryan with agnostic Biblical quiddities. Baited by Darrow, Raulston snapped: "I hope you do not mean to reflect...
...Varsity Club last night announced its officers for next year. Phillip C. Haughey '57 of Eliot and Framingham was elected president, James Cairns '57 of Leverett and Belmont, secretary, and Sigo Falk of Leverett and Pittsburg, treasurer...
Coach Rex Peery of Pittsburg, whose team won the Eastern Wrestling Tournament at Lehigh over the weekend, was elected President of the Association. Both Peery and Pickett will serve one-year terms which will expire at the time of next season's Easterns...