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Overanxious. Although one of the Met's most imposing casts surrounded Contralto Anderson, the performance was full of flaws. Tenor Richard Tucker growled out notes that were too low for him, Soprano Zinka Milanov let her voice swoop and squawk through Act II, and when she flipped a disguising shawl over her face, she looked so much like an animated teacozy that the audience snickered. Only Roberta Peters' pearly coloratura and pert presence were thoroughly pleasant. But for Marian Anderson the evening was a soaring personal triumph. There were eight curtain calls. "Anderson! Anderson!" chanted the standees...
Decrees for Drunks. The fact was, however, that milk-drinking Mendès, who has little use for wine, was not kidding. Many of the liquor reforms he advocated last week went into immediate effect as government decrees. In one swoop, he ordered all bars to stop selling hard liquor between the hours of 5 and 10 a.m., when most French laborers take their morning eye-opener. One day each week the bars must shut down completely. No new bars are to be opened near schools or barracks...
Instead of taking the usual workload of 34 hours in her first two semesters, Edith upped the ante to 40. By June, she still had eleven credits left to go, but she decided to toss these off in one fell swoop during the summer. This week, when the university announced that she would get her bachelor's degree after less than a year, her average stands at 4.25 out of a possible 5, i.e., almost...
Communist has found, like Branko, that life as a party member is not all slivovitz and skittles. The Zagreb congress officially decreed that henceforth, the prime mission of Yugoslavia's Communists was not to command but to persuade. In one swoop it sent down the drain the hopes of all those who had joined the party in search of prestige, power and patronage. Today a good Tito Communist is expected not only to tread the delicate ideological line between Russian Stalinism and Western capitalism, but to spend a good part of his time attending ward meetings, canvassing his neighbors...
Crimson number one man Hadden Tomes edged the Green's Bud Addis, taking the last game 13 to 17. Larry Brownell, number two man, won a clean swoop over Dartmouth's Jack Buffington by scores on 15-11, 15-3. Number three man Bill Wister banked Stew Stearns of the Green team...