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...Although no Negro had ever sung a solo role there at the time. The first: Marian Anderson, who in 1955 long past her vocal prime-appeared in the minor part of the fortune teller Ulrica in Verdi's A Masked Ball. Following Anderson, three Negroes have had lead roles at the Met: Baritone Robert McFerrin, Sopranos Mattiwilda Dobbs and Gloria Davy...
...Inward Eye. Politically, Schirmbeck is an annoying cafe neutralist; he indulges himself in an overcrude lampoon of U.S. Physicist Edward Teller, and solemnly puts forth the preposterous view that Atom Spies "Arthur and Edith Rosenbluth" were martyrs in the cause of freedom of information. But the author's principal concern is examined exhaustively and well: If the eye of science offends, should it be plucked out? The heroic Prince de Bary refuses to build war brains for the OSI, and retires to a life of contemplation. Subtly enough that the truth does not cloy, Schirmbeck answers his own question...
...Four: George Beadle (July 14, 1958), Willard Libby (Aug. 15, 1955), Edward Teller (Nov. 18, 1957), James Van Allen...
...Edward Teller, 52, vehemently dislikes his title: "Father of the H-bomb." In the first place, he argues, the big bomb was the creation of many minds. Even more important, the phrase is unpopular with Teller's teen-age son Paul. Explains Teller: "No one would want the hydrogen bomb for a kid brother." But the rumpled, Hungarian-born physicist has small chance of escape. Many minds did indeed contribute to the U.S. H-bomb, but it was Teller's basic insight that made the finished product possible. Today, he teaches a freshman course in physics appreciation at U.C.L.A...
With personal income at an alltime high, holiday spending was heavy. In Manhattan last week, Bonwit Teller's, Ohrbach's and Macy's all rang up one-day sales records. In Detroit, Christmas sales were up some 3% over record last year. At week's end most merchants were still too busy totting up sales slips to know just how merry a Christmas...