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Died. James J. Metcalfe, 53, German-born ex-FBI agent (1931-35) who helped gun down John Dillinger outside Chicago's Biograph Theater in 1934, later joined the Chicago Times as a reporter, made a splash with his 1937 series exposing the German-American Bund; of an abdominal hemorrhage; in Dallas...
...most time-dishonored custom on Broadway is the advertising trick of lifting words and phrases out of context from critical reviews, thereby changing negatives to positives, pans to raves. Last week a half-page splash in the New York Times heralded Albert Camus' early (1938) play, Caligula, which had just opened for the first time on Broadway (see THEATER...
...Lovers (Zenith International), swimming out of La Nouvelle Vague (TIME, Nov. 16) without any clothes on, has made quite a financial splash. The picture has already grossed $360,000 in Paris -the returns are not yet in from the back country, where the movie is still showing -and in the U.S. it has broken box-office records all around the art-house circuit...
...parents wanted I should be a good farmer") and singing in the local Lutheran church choir. Then a neighboring choirmaster started giving her vocal lessons, persuaded her to enter the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm. Delayed by the war, she made her first real splash in 1947 with the Stockholm Opera singing Verdi's Lady Macbeth. Gradually she developed a repertory that now includes all the Wagnerian soprano parts, many of the great roles of Verdi, Puccini, Richard Strauss, plus an assortment of contemporary roles. Two and a half years ago (TIME, June 3, 1957), her Isolde...
...nation's top jocks were acknowledging what everybody has suspected for some time-that their teen-age audience has begun to walk out on them. The popularity of rock 'n' roll began to slack off about a year ago, and stations that once blared Splish Splash, Dream Lover, Hey, Little Girl and High School Sweater have started turning to less frenzied numbers such as Delia Reese's Don't You Know and Johnny Mathis' Misty, plus the effusions of such reformed rockers as Paul Anka, Bobby Darin, Brook Benton. Back into pop records went...