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Champagne & Coke. Tebaldi's eminence in the world of international opera is made the more striking by a shortage of competition. Only Callas, Milanov and Italy's great mezzo, Giulietta Simionato, rank with her in the grand tradition. Below the leaders there is a substantial reservoir of fine veteran singers, all of them capable of turning in consistently competent and often inspired performances. They include Victoria de los Angeles, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Antonietta Stella, Eleanor Steber, Sena Jurinac, Lisa Delia Casa, Irmgard Seefried, Leonie Rysanek, Risë Stevens. Backing them up is a promising and fast-rising crop...
...again favorable: third-quarter net per common share was $1.08, v. 75? a year ago, with sales of $88.7 million so far this year running about 6% under 1957. When its modernization program is finished, the company sees an even brighter earnings picture that may again restore its first rank...
...gave Sweden the West Indian island of Saint-Barthélemy, 2) the King of Sweden gave Baron de Staël, who had rigged the gift, the plum post of Ambassador to Paris, 3) Banker Necker, who had refused to settle for a son-in-law below ambassadorial rank, gave daughter Germaine to Ambassador de Staël, along with a whopping dowry. As for Germaine, she wanted to cultivate "the intellectual and nervous exaltation" which was her notion of the perfect life. Her husband, she said, was too "correct, sterile, inert" to supply exaltation of any sort. Other...
...became the first coeducational college to grant bachelors' degrees to women; its football team beat Ohio State as recently as 1921. An impressive number of educational observers call Oberlin the best coeducational college in the country, and there is much to support its right to top rank...
With combined sales of $638,084,826 in the twelve months ending Aug 2, the new 46-store chain will rank a shade below Federated Department Stores, whose comparable sales were...