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...refurbish the perennially popular double bill of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, the Met's Rudolf Bing got lavish, handsome but unimaginative new sets from the hands of Scene Designer Rolf Gerard, hired a top Broadway director, Jose (Long Day's Journey into Night) Quintero. Although he had never done an opera before, and had seen only half a dozen in his life, Director Quintero somehow managed to absorb most of the stagy, stiff-kneed mannerisms of traditional opera productions. Nevertheless, particularly in Pagliacci, he added some truly exciting touches: Nedda, starting her first-act aria reclining voluptuously...
...band, then with Johnny Otis, finally with Lionel Hampton, who took her to Manhattan. For a while she had a "steady gig" at a Greenwich Village spot, but she never attracted real attention until she went to Sweden in 1956 with an "allstar" jazz group headed by Trumpeter Rolf Ericsen. The Swedes loved her and mobbed her concerts. When she got back to the U.S., choice dates were still hard to come by, but West Coast jazz critics, notably the San Francisco Chronicle's Ralph Gleason, started to take note of the best new voice in the business...
Most students, like Rolf Goetze, manager of the Refreshment Agency, view the ten per cent as an "assessment." Not many, however, are aware that in return for the assessment, each agency receives a certain amount of insurance, standardized records and a general accounting system, secretarial services, credit strength of the corporation to assist in borrowing, and use of office facilities...
...elected to the Board of Directors were John M. Bullitt '43, Master of Quincy House; Warren S. Berg '44; Richard G. Dale '52; Harold Rosenwald '27 Stephen L. Singer 1GB; and Dean Robert B. Watson '37. Rolf Goetze '59 and Charles M. Olin '59 were also named to the board...
Says Germany's veteran Rocketeer Rolf Engel, who has known Von Braun since 1928: "He is a human leader whose eyes and thoughts have always been turned toward the stars. It would be foolish to assign rocketry success to one person totally. Components must necessarily be the work of many minds; so must successive stages of development. But because Wernher von Braun joins technical ability, passionate optimism, immense experience and uncanny organizing ability in the elusive power to create a team, he is the greatest human element behind today's rocketry success...