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...hard for a piece preceding the Ninth not to sound like a curtain-raiser: Everybody comes to hear what follows, but has to sit through the opening number anyway. Since Leinsdorf decided to preface the Ninth with something, Siegfried Idyll was a good choice. Unfortunately for those, like myself, for whom it is Wagner's only approachable composition, Leinsdorf's treatment of it was disappointing...
...paper was in the timing. If it had been issued back when Johnson was fumbling around, it might have had some effect. But how can you criticize a man when he's fighting and winning? As General Lucius Clay, now the G.O.P.'s biggest national fund raiser, said: "We didn't talk about our involvement in Viet Nam when we should have. We cannot right...
When it came to a number of other embarrassing aspects, though, the majority got out its brushes. Veteran Democratic Fund Raiser Matthew H. McCloskey, for example, had been accused of deliberately overpaying Maryland Insurance Man Don B. Reynolds $35,000 for writing a performance bond on the $20 million District of Columbia Stadium that McCloskey's firm was building. McCloskey claimed that it was only a bookkeeping goof, but Reynolds testified that $25,000 of the money was illegally channeled into the Democrats' 1960 presidential campaign fund through Baker. Generously, the committee found McCloskey's testimony "candid...
SHIRLEY BASSEY BELTS THE BEST! (United Artists). The mulatto Tigress from Tiger Bay, the waterfront district of Cardiff, is big in London but never had a blazing hit in the U.S. until she hammered out the brazen curtain raiser to Goldfinger The Goldfinger theme song also opens this album of Broadway ballads, including Peo ple and Once in a Lifetime, all emotionally amplified by the torchy singer...
After the first five furlongs of the 1 3/10-mi. Preakness, Tom Rolfe was nine lengths back. Isador Bieber's Flag Raiser (odds: 5-1) was straining for the lead, with Lucky Debonair and a longshot named Swift Ruler (42-1). Lucky Debonair's jockey, Willie Shoemaker, knew he was in trouble: "I was getting into him pretty good, but he wasn't giving me anything." Rounding the turn for home. Flag Raiser was in front-but there was Tom Rolfe ranging up to take the lead...