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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5 p.m., ABC). Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov, with Ezio Pinza, Risë Stevens, Richard Tucker...
...beginning of each season, Kurtz packs in 20,000 Kansans for a free music festival (sponsored by a local drug chain) with soloists like Risë Stevens, Gladys Swarthout, Alec Templeton. Not above hoking a bit, Kurtz last fall led the band while Benny Goodman played Dizzy Fingers, then conducted an unrehearsed hot chorus of Anchors Aweigh...
Liszt in Technicolor. Of the many "serious" musicians to trek to Hollywood (among them Lawrence Tibbett, Lily Pons, Risë Stevens), only Jose Iturbi and Wagnerian Tenor Lauritz Melchior have made the grade, by their ability to be themselves on the screen, to get off foolish lines with M-G-M stars Jimmy Durante and Kathryn Grayson...
...Risë Stevens, Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano now slumming in Hollywood (Going My Way, Time to Love), had her voice insured for $1 million by Lloyd's. Premium: $10,000 a year...
Loose-shouldered Ensign Adolf Kiefer, who began breaking world backstroke records ten years ago, helped Wally Ris build up a top-heavy 46-point team total for the Bainbridge (Md.) Naval Training Center. With strokes to spare, Kiefer copped his pet 150-yd. backstroke event and the 300-yd. individual medley. Cracked 26-year-old Adolf Kiefer to himself when he banged his funny bone against the side of the pool on the last leg of the backstroke: "What am I doing in here anyway? I'm too old for this sort of thing...