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Nobody seems to care that only three-quarters of the Met's 3,500 seats have a full view of the stage. The Met's hidebound directors have kept out all Negro singers-including Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson. It may not be the Met's fault that opera is a declining art (the last first-rate popular opera was written in 1910), but the Met so far has done nothing to encourage the most promising opera composer of the day, England's young Benjamin (Peter Grimes) Britten (TIME...
...choose now to work for peace. . . . I accepted co-chairmanship of the National Committee to Win the Peace, with Paul Robeson, because the objective of the group is to provide a national forum for the discussion of issues affecting peace. . . . Membership is representative of all strata of American life: religious, educational, labor, management, veteran...
...High point of the congress: when U.S. Negro singer (and leftist) Paul Robeson finished singing Song of the Fatherland, Soviet General Kozlov was so moved that he rushed to the rostrum and planted a kiss on Robeson's cheek...
...press conference in Manhattan, General Carlson and Russophile Singer Paul Robeson, cochairmen of the National Committee to Win the Peace, announced a San Francisco conference for next month to urge withdrawal of U.S. troops from China, withdrawal of U.S. support from Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Government. Said Cochairman Carlson: "The only democratic force [in China] is that being fostered by the Communists. People in this country don't like that word Communist; but I've learned it's wise to go behind words and find out about actions...
...Herald Tribune and leftist PM applauded solemnly. Manhattan newsstands sold out early on publication day. Showman Lee Shubert tried to get the dramatic rights. In Princeton, N.J., the mayor asked all citizens to read the piece. Knopf planned to publish it as a book. A radio chain wanted Paul Robeson, Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, and Katharine Cornell to take turns reading the 53-page article on the air. Only one dissenting note was heard: a reader in Brooklyn sent back his copy, saying he had read enough about the atom bomb. He was dismissed as crotchety...