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Most of the cast seemed infected by the professor's indiscretions, overdoing the broadest points, throwing away the few finer ones. Sylvia Stahlman (Eurydice) had the prettiest voice, at its best in The Old Time Religion ("Bacchus my king, O let's be romantic"), and Hiram Sherman (Jupiter) hammed his part happily, right down to losing his hula skirt. Musico-medienne Paula Laurence was the most professional of all as Miss P. (for Public) Opinion, "a vestal virgin with a bachelor's degree." Her message: break as many commandments as you please, except for "Thou shalt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera Boffola | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

Braucher and Freund suggested that President Eisenhower appoint Hand or Hastie to the vacancy on the bench which will be created by the retirement of Sherman Minto next month. The two professors felt sure Hand could get the retired Congressional approval at the next session, which will start in January...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Bar Directors Spurn Choice of Hand for Court | 9/29/1956 | See Source »

...School professors urged last night that Judge Learned Hand '93, retired judge of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, be given an interim appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. Hand would occupy the seat to be made vacant next month by Sherman Minton's retirement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Professors Support Handfor Supreme Court | 9/27/1956 | See Source »

...Time was," said U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sherman ("Shay") Minton last week, "when they waited onan elderly Justice and told him he wasn't doing his work right. I don't want that to happen to me." So saying, Justice Minton, 65, tendered his resignation from the court, effective Oct, 15, for reasons of ill health, thereby terminating a career of 15 unremarkable years on federal benches and eight remarkable years in the brawling, bruising New Deal politics of his home state of Indiana and the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: An Echo Fades | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...this, thought former U.S. Ambassador to India John Sherman Cooper (now Republican candidate for U.S. Senator from Kentucky), would give the Indians a hedge against crop failure and inflation, save their foreign exchange and their funds for industrial development, and generally help to bolster the Indian economy. The agreement assures other free-world countries that they will not be deprived of Indian markets, provides India with enough purchasing power to maintain her normal imports of agricultural commodities from Canada, Denmark and New Zealand. As for the Indians, New Delhi was as cool and silent as Indian officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Two-Way Aid | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

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