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...saying much about what caused the 59-year-old maestro's departure. Certainly a major complaint was that after spending the early fall in New York, Kubelik decamped for Munich to fulfill previously scheduled conducting commitments and kept in touch with New York largely via phone and Telex exchanges. In his absence, things began to come apart, beginning in January with a spectacularly unlucky production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. Swedish Soprano Catarina Ligendza, scheduled for the first performances, canceled, citing illness. In turn, Tenor Jon Vickers, who is the best Tristan in the world right...
...President George S. Moore commented bluntly: "I am sorry about Kubelik's resignation, but it is impossible to do things by Telex. He worked part time." Understandably, Kubelik saw things differently. In a terse resignation statement he contended that the Met's financial condition prevented him from achieving his "artistic ideals." He concluded: "Relieved of certain of my artistic demands, the Metropolitan may be better able to bring its financial situation into balance." Exactly what these artistic requirements might be-beyond hustling up the odd Tosca in a hurry -remained unspecified...
...stable outside town. The story is the same overseas. "Rarely worn sweaters are back in use in the evening," reports Tokyo Bureau Chief Herman Nickel. "And at the office, the knowledge that the landlord turns off the heat at 5:15 p.m. has quickened the pace of typewriters and telex machines...
What seems to have impressed the judge most was the argument of IBM's chief counsel, Thomas D. Barr, who contended that a failure to reduce the huge award to Telex would permit it to "claim damages which are effected by its unlawful plan to appropriate IBM's business to itself." Conceding that he faced an "almost unmanageable" problem in trying to rejigger the judgment, Christensen first plaintively requested the disputants to appeal to a higher court. But by week's end he had apparently recovered some of his old self-confidence and announced that he would...
...Telex does not have much time to waste waiting. It has been counting heavily on collecting from IBM to rescue it from its deep debts. If the Tulsa-based company is forced to pay off the $21.9 million claim against it before collecting at least as much from IBM, warned Telex Attorney Floyd L. Walker, "there is no way Telex can stay out of bankruptcy and become any kind of viable competitor." Walker's plea provoked a charitable response from IBM, which agreed not to press for the money until the case is finally decided...