Word: strausses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These words of sage advice, sung to her mirror image by the aging Marschallin in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, are largely ignored by grand-opera stars. But to 61-year-old German-born Soprano Lotte Lehmann, who for 25 years sang them with unsurpassed eloquence, they have long had the weight of dogma...
Last week Lotte Lehmann, in the East for recitals and her first one-man show of paintings, went back on her resolution. To honor her good friend Richard Strauss, who died last summer (TIME, Sept. 19), and to mark her 50th Manhattan recital in a decade, she decided to sing once more the first-act monologues from her most famous role, the Marschallin...
When 20-year-old Levi Strauss sailed from Manhattan round Cape Horn to San Francisco in 1850 to seek a fortune in the gold fields, he carried a roll of canvas in his baggage. He intended to sell it to a tentmaker to get enough cash for a grubstake. But when he got ashore, the complaint of a friendly miner gave him a better idea. "Pants don't wear worth a hoot up in the diggins," said the miner. "Can't get a pair strong enough to last no time...
Levi promptly went into the clothing business. He had a tailor cut a pair of trousers from his canvas roll, and soon the miner was strolling all over town, boasting how strong were these "pants of Levi's." With one satisfied customer, Strauss found he had a steady stream of men who wanted "Levis." In a shop on San Francisco's California Street, he began making dozens of pairs of the waist-high overalls which defied the wear & tear of bronc-riding, gold-mining and plain ordinary living...
Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission ($17,500) and another $15,000 job as AECommissioner (former occupant: Lewis Strauss, who resigned last week). Two excellent openings for industrious geniuses with fast-growing establishment. Card-holding members of Communist Party need not apply. Ability to defend yourself before Congress essential...