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...Scrap Tristan and put on Tosca. At the Met-which has fielded three Tristans for an act apiece rather than switch operas for a single performance-it was a disastrous suggestion. Schuyler Chapin, Gentele's successor as manager, rejected the idea, hired a minor singer named Klara Barlow to sing Isolde, and pulled together cast and production...
...write fiction about the war; Fair Stood the Wind for France (1944), about a British bomber pilot shot down over French soil, was one of the outstanding results. Bates was best known in the U.S. for The Darling Buds of May (1958), a novel about the zany fruit-picking, scrap-dealing Larkin family that was made into the movie The Mating Game...
...easily enough to last through this century-and probably a lot longer-because so much lead is recycled. In addition, U.S. industry could substitute amply supplied materials for scarce ones (plastics for tin, for example) or increase the life of most of its finished metals by using much more scrap...
...visitor needed only to mention a scrap of news from Moscow or a question from Russian history, wrote his friend Columnist Joseph Alsop last week, "and instantly, as though by magic, he would be his old shrewd and endlessly knowledgeable self again...
WINDJAMMER PARADE edited by Hans Hansen. 112 pages. Viking. $16.50. There is only a scrap of text to explain that in the Olympic year of 1972 some 65 of the world's largest windjammers closed a series of races by parading into the harbor of Kiel, West Germany. The book ends with a catalogue of boats that took part-square-riggers with skyscrapers of sail, brigantines, Dutch gaff cutters, topsail schooners. In between there is nothing but glorious pictures of tall ships, webbed traceries of cordage, acre upon acre of canvas, panoramas showing the vast fleet dotting troubled waters...