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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inevitably, the wreckers are wrenching a few heartstrings. Frantic efforts to save the venerable, 83-year-old opera house ended in failure last week as the Old Met Opera House Corp., whose trustees included Soprano Licia Albanese and U.S. Senator Jacob Javits, admitted "with a heavy heart" that it was unable to raise the $8 million to $12 million needed to save the building. Commented the New York Times: "It is live opera that opera lovers support, not dead houses...
...done so is a wonder, for among other conspicuous firsts, Americans are without equal as nature's vandals-by-indifference. At Lake Tahoe, the story is hearteningly the reverse. For nearly a decade, local, state and federal agencies have fought valiantly and, it now seems, successfully, to save Tahoe from the fate that has necessitated a long-range antipollution cleanup program for Lake Erie. What has been achieved at Tahoe is the arresting of the life cycle of the lake so that its crystalline waters may retain the remarkable purity that still ranks them far above the federally required...
...Massachusetts Committee to Save the Grand Canyon in waging war against ignorance, red tape, time, and Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall's dams...
...show is one of the few American institutions that have not changed since 1934, save for the fact that the Hour was trimmed to 30 minutes and Mack compassionately eliminated the gong that Major Bowes used as a hook. In an average week, 450 people are auditioned by Mack's nationwide talent scouts, but only nine appear in the two-minute performances. Mack, 62, is so well known that when he walks down the street, would-be artists often start dancing or singing for him. He keeps his home address in New York's Westchester County a secret...
Obviously Fatha knows best, for through all his ups and downs, he has never tried to alter his style to serve fashion. Hines's playing today, save for a heightened sense of surprise, is practically the same as it was when he came out of Pittsburgh as the most original jazz pianist around. His own father had played the cornet, and Earl adapted its lusty, brassy quality to the keyboard, learned to chop out big, gaudy chords in order to be heard through a blaring orchestra. The technique was further refined when he teamed with Louis Armstrong...