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...Fifth Avenues and from the sleepy streets in between. Her triumph monopolized the front page of the Laurel Leader-Call ("She reaches the pinnacle") and for a time, even crowded out the achievements of that other local Negro hero, Olympic Broad Jumper Ralph Boston. Laurel knew about Leontyne before Rudolf Bing ever heard of her, and few of Laurel's 27,000 people are likely to forget it. The night of her debut, the local Western Union operator turned cranky under the weight of well-wishing wires. "I know where to reach her," she eventually snapped to callers; "just...
...Leonessa!" Then, for the new opera house at the Salzburg Festival last summer, Von Karajan "had this big, fat, crackpot idea of my doing Donna Anna." Leontyne did it, and followed it by opening the Berlin Festival as soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic. By then the Met's Rudolf Bing had signed her, and that was "the ultimate." Says Leontyne, looking back: "It was all so fast. My mind was so wide open. It was like having growing pains before your time...
...notion that much of the Bible is myth has long been held by some Protestant theologians, including the U.S.'s Paul Tillich and Germany's Rudolf Bultmann...
...Fair, worked for the Soviet Amtorg Trading Corp. in 1942. Around the time of the Ethel and Julius Rosenberg spy trial in 1951, the Cohens ducked from sight. The FBI was not looking for them then but for reasons unrevealed, began taking an interest in them during the Rudolf Ivanovich Abel spy case in 1957. When Colonel Abel was convicted as a Russian spy, the FBI sent circulars concerning the elusive Cohens to their counter-intelligence counterparts in Britain...
...RUDOLF ALTSCHUL, M.D. University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, Canada...