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...front in the red plush seats, the Metropolitan Opera often gives off the suggestions of high living-the rustle of silks, the lambent touch of mink, a bouquet of costly perfumes. But the $4,500,000-a-year business of putting on the opera, a money-losing enterprise at best, always is a matter of shirtsleeves and hard heads, of penny-pinching and tough bargaining. Last month the Met's money-harried management threatened to cancel next winter's entire season because the managers and the artists' union could not get together on contract terms. But last...
...revolution has even extended to the Harvard Clubs, which with their plush sanctums on their remote locations long seemed immune to any regenerative influences from Cambridge...
...Korean people." He was confident of his popularity and of the efficiency of his machine. Chipper and jaunty at 81, he spent the final days of the campaign attending the movies and pointing out dirty spots on the new floors of his pet project, Seoul's plush $5,000,000 Bando Hotel...
...tangle with Robber Baron Jay Gould over control of the Erie Railroad. Supported by immense fees from the Erie's British stockholders, Sickles marshaled his forces, led a cavalcade of carriages full of lawyers and stockholders and, flanked by squads of police, raided the Erie's plush headquarters and forced Gould to resign. In 1887 Sickles' father died, leaving him a fortune, and the general marked the event with a dinner for 150 guests. He collected girls galore, got himself elected again to Congress and, with a troupe known as "the wrecks of the Civil...
...London Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Artur Rodzinski; Westminster). A luscious performance of some of the late master's wittiest notes, including the pompous march (ironically made famous by its use as the theme for radio's FBI in Peace and War). One of Westminster's plush "Laboratory Series," it comes in a heavy-plastic zipper envelope and is premium-priced. The sound is very good indeed...