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...time in the U.S. in more than a century when the American Opera Society opened its fifth season in Manhattan's Town Hall. During its brief lifetime, the company has proved that it can mount operatic oddities with unique skill and flair. Its entire season is already a sellout by subscription alone, and when hundreds of people were turned away for last week's performance, the company quickly scheduled another evening of Anna for next month at Carnegie Hall...
...Sunday News (40,000). Neanderthal Republican Loeb (TIME, May 20), who frequently vents his spleen in terrible-tempered Page One editorials, e.g., an attack on President Eisenhower headed "Dopey Dwight," happily stepped up his press runs to 90,000 daily and 100,000 on Sunday and reported a sellout. The Boston-published Christian Science Monitor, which has a separate verbal contract with the mailers, was unaffected by the strike. After a 14-day interval in which it cautiously banned street sales within 30 miles of Boston, the Monitor last week resumed distribution in the city, but it did not have...
...Good Thing. Santa Fe has shelled out for opera as though it were investing in big-league baseball. The opening week was a sellout, and Crosby is counting on 90% attendance for the rest of the season (which will leave the company with an easily manageable $5,000-to-$10,000 deficit). Direct contributions have poured in from service-station owners, haberdashers, statehouse employees and wealthy, retired businessmen. If some are not all-out lovers of opera, all have been touched on their civic pride, or calculate the potential profits to be had if Santa Fe becomes the Salzburg...
Carolina's squad of talented Yankees (TIME, Jan. 7) boasted a 31-consecutive-game winning streak. Kansas, beaten only once all season, had that 7-ft. Philadelphia phenomenon, Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain. The meeting was sure to make a superlative game for the sellout crowd...
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