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...Theater (Sun. 2 p.m., NBC). Aldous Huxley's After Many a Summer Dies the Swan...
Duffy, and his far-flung team of 50 vice presidents and 1,150 employees in eleven U.S. cities, had done it by snagging choice new accounts (Lucky Strike, Schick Razors, Swan Soap, T.W.A.), and by hanging on to such B.B.D. & O. perennials as U.S. Steel Corp., Du Pont and General Electric. In six years, the agency had added a cool $50 million to its billings, more than doubled its business. B.B.D. &O. reports no gross revenue, but based on the usual 15% commission, its gross had risen to about $12 million a year...
Once upon a time a writer's autobiography was his swan song. But these days authors are in such a hurry to chronicle themselves that the average autobiography sounds more like the first cuckoo in spring. If the trend keeps up, it will soon be only a very old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud who will begin his career without first completing his Life...
Tenor Melchior promptly quit and wound up his 24 years at the Met with a switch on the oldest gag in opera: "If I don't miss the swan boat in Lohengrin Thursday night, it will be my goodbye to the Metropolitan . . ." After the performance he said, "Not only as Lohengrin but as Lauritz Melchior, I have sung my swan song . . ." His fans gave him a warm ovation and tearful dressing-room farewells...
...Primrose. In the University of Minnesota's Northrop Memorial Auditorium last week, a near-capacity crowd brought Violist Primrose back onstage six times with thunderous applause. With Conductor Antal Dorati's Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, he had given the first public performance of Bartok's tragic, lyrical swan song...