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...other judges, half an hour later came out with the names of the winners. The Met decided to award two contracts-to Tacoma's 30-year-old Baritone Roald Reitan and 20-year-old, Toronto-born Soprano Teresa Stratas. Baritone Reitan, who was turned down by a Met scout four years ago when he auditioned on his wedding day, took the news fairly calmly, but tiny (5 ft.) Soprano Stratas, a senior at the University of Toronto, promptly burst into tears. She kissed Conductor Kurt Adler and everyone else in sight, announced: "I can't wait. I want...
...trail boss of Wagon Train, one of the biggest (60 min.) and costliest ($90,000-$120,000) of TV's saddle-soap operas. Bond shares the billing with a new guest star every week, and with a capable young actor named Robert Horton, who plays a tough scout. On the show, Actor Bond is fatherly one minute, the next he is roaring like a mule with the colic. An extravert's extravert, he has a grin like a Texas river, a mile wide and an inch deep, and a laugh that can shatter a klieg light. He also...
...Trail Scout Robert Horton falls in love with a passing nun (Vera Miles)and stout ly refrains from saying...
...latest addition to the Eton-Harrow-Rugby tradition deals with Borstal,*an equally exclusive institution reserved for young English criminals. Brendan Behan, a Borstal Old Boy, has written about his three years in Borstal tie and short, school-uniform pants ("like a bleedin' boy scout"). The second published work (1958) by an author known in the U.S. chiefly for his play, The Quare Fellow (TIME, Dec. 8), Borstal Boy is a rousing reform-school saga...
...Mikoyan was not here to scout for his country. Indeed he was here for the opposite purpose. He came in the same way that Stevenson and Humphrey went to his country. He came in peace -for the purpose of promoting peaceful trade...