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...Alcestis (TIME, Dec. 19), Soprano Eileen Farrell, 40, left her fans cheering a reputation instead of a performance: the fabled power and warmth were there, but the voice wobbled shrilly in the upper registers. Last week, appearing in some of the Met's fastest company (Mezzo Nell Rankin, Tenor Richard Tucker, Baritone Robert Merrill), Singer Farrell made her second Met start-the title role in Ponchielli's La Gioconda. Blonde-wigged and almost wobble-free, she supplied the spectacular singing her audience had come to hear...
Died. John Elliott Rankin, 78, for 32 consecutive years (1920-52) Congressman from the First District of Mississippi; of a heart attack; in Tupelo, Miss. A shrewd parliamentarian, for all his demagoguery, wiry John Rankin consistently backed veterans' benefits and rural electrification (he co-sponsored the TVA bill with Senator George Norris), was equally steadfast in vituperating Negroes, Jews, labor unions and Communists (real or imagined) in a manner matched only by his fellow Mississippian, Senator Theodore Bilbo...
Stretching a Point. For five hours Mrs. Harvey's attorney, huge (238 Ibs.) Andrew Rankin, 36, hammered at the calm, moderate Dr. Evans. Suppose, he asked, that the stocking found around Mrs. Knight's throat had not been stretched. Would the cause of death be certain? "No," replied the scientist. Then Rankin moved in on Witness Clift, the government biologist who had rashly admitted that he was an "expert on stocking strangulation cases." "Did you ever ask if that stocking had been stretched?" he thundered. With a sigh. Dr. Clift replied that he had not. Had the stocking...
...final vote was tense. Before it began. Attorney General William Rogers, Deputy Attorney General Lawrence Walsh and Solicitor General J. Lee Rankin-who are automatically members of the A.B.A. House of Delegates but rarely vote -slipped into their seats to underscore the Eisenhower Administration's concern over the outcome. By a slender 114 to 107, the A.B.A. stuck by its condemnation of the Connally Reservation...
...admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, was twice the presidential candidate of the Equal Rights Party (1884 and 1888); Mrs. Stanton stood for Congress in 1866, received a discouraging 24 votes. The first woman to win a national office was Montana's Republican Representative Jeanette Rankin, who took her seat four years before the 19th Amendment was passed. Crowed an elated suffragette: "Jeanette is the best stump speaker in Montana, can dance like a boarding-school girl, and, believe me, she will lead those Congressmen a merry little two-step when she comes to Washington!" But Pacifist...