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...Decca, 3 LPs). Despite its slightly studied style and rather tubby sound, this is the finest recording yet to appear of the 165-year-old masterpiece. Soprano Maria Stader makes Pamina a joy to the ear; Rita Streich is awesomely secure in the Queen of the Night's sky-high aerobatics, while the two leading men, Tenor Ernst Häfliger and Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, use their handsome voices with distinction...
HOTEL HEADACHES in Las Vegas are getting more painful. With two hotels already closed (TIME, Jan. 16), the new, 200-room, $4,500,000 Dunes Hotel, which opened only last May, has closed its gambling casino and theater restaurants because of sky-high operating costs...
Banking the Soil. In the fall of 1955, U.S. farmers were going through a belated readjustment from the sky-high prosperity of World War II and Korea. Since 1947, the national farm income has declined 30%. The prices received by the farmers for their products have fallen 21% since Korea, while the cost of what they buy has declined less than...
...rascals themselves and the brand of mischievous nonsense they generate. They are good kids without being goody-goody; they have a genius for getting into jams, but are ingenious at getting out. They may build a gang-size hook and ladder, charge downhill in it and fling sky-high all pedestrians along...
...Vanguard set of these masterpieces is played more cohesively and soulfully, particularly in such spots as the dissonant slow movement in Concerto No. 1. Vox's interpretations are more rugged and, in the low-toned No. 6, merrier. Standout performer: the Vanguard trumpeter, who tootles his sky-high part in No. 2 with insolent ease. Vox says it used a "clarino" for the part, which sounds more like a clarinet than a trumpet...