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Eventually, Percy and other top Republicans were forced to find a sacri ficial lamb. Last week the lamb was ritually slaughtered as Daley, 64, walked off with his fourth term by a margin of more than half a million votes. The mayor racked up 789,163-73% of the total ballots cast - while his opponent, John Waner, a prosperous, self-made heating contractor, tallied 272,955. Even in the Negro wards, from which the Democrats feared a strong protest vote, Daley outdrew Waner...
...batting as high as .290 was a pitcher, and the team's top slugger had hit only 12 home runs all year. (Not counting "Dodger homers," in which, as explained last week by Shortstop Maury Wills: "I get a base on balls, take second on a sacri fice, steal third, and come home on a fly ball.") But just the night before, the Dodgers had won their twelfth straight game, as Sandy Koufax shut out Cincinnati on two hits, 5-0, running his own season's record to 25-8 and recording his 369th strikeout-a major league...
...exactly what the new Bundeswehr wanted. He introduced himself as Herr Doktor Robert Schneider with degrees in medicine, philosophy, psychiatry and law. Unmarried and with a lucrative psychiatric practice in the city of Goslar, Schneider nevertheless wanted to become an army medical officer. "This will mean a personal sacri fice, but money has never been a part of my life," he said nobly. "One must have ideals...
...Choral Society with G. Wallace Woodworth conducting, opened with the full chorus singing Hassler's Cantate Domino from Sacri Concentus. For such a large group, the girls appeared excellently drilled. The Choral Society did not fare so well for most of the remainder of the evening, the Sopranos in particular being somewhat thin and ofttimes shrill. The group sang Mabel Daniels' new Carol of a Rose. The selection, with words from a fifteenth century Flemish poem, was quite unexciting. The highpoint of the Choral Society's performance was a full and lively rendition of Schubert's Valses Nobles...
...young Toscanini, Verdi found a conductor he could trust. Before a performance of Verdi's Quattro Pezzi Sacri, Toscanini once called on him, told him that he felt a retard was needed in one passage of the Te Deum. When Verdi heard him play it, he patted him on the back, said: "Splendid! That is just how I heard it in my mind." "Why didn't you write it that way?" asked Toscanini. Said Verdi: "I was afraid it would be exaggerated." Said Giacomo Puccini of Toscanini, who had conducted the world premiere of his La Boheme: "Toscanini...
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