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...discussed "revival of religion" at the University is not just the property of the President and Corporation. The stepped-up membership drives of student religious organizations and increased student attendance at local churches echo it on another level. There are all sorts of explanations, vague ones like "the religious tenor of the times," specific ones such as the example set by the personal devotion of President Pusey. But regardless of cause, a revival is in the offing, bringing with it the question of whether there is room for expansion of religious life at the University that can enrich, without encroaching...
Died. Frank Munn, 58, Bronx-born tenor, "The Golden Voice of Radio" during the '30s and early '40s; of a heart attack; in New York City. A policeman's son, he learned to sing by memorizing popular recordings, mimicking what he heard. As "Paul Oliver" on radio's Palmolive Hour, he became a nationwide favorite. In 1931 he dropped the pseudonym, and, never appearing on stage or screen, became star soloist on NBC's weekly Album of Familiar Music, Waltz Time...
Gartside, who replaces Edmund P. Allison in the post, sang with the club for four years as an undergraduate, much of the time as a tenor soloist. He is now enrolled in the Graduate School of Education...
...Metropolitan Opera's Impresario Rudolf Bing, there was no Manhattan crag out of the range of two of grand opera's most massive voices. Wagnerian Tenor Lauritz Melchior, on his way to a singing job in a Las Vegas hotel, updated an old quarrel with Bing (they'had parted company in 1950) by taking him to task for staging opera in English translations. "That is all right for the lesser companies, but the Met should present opera in its greatest form, and that is in the original languages. Besides, you can't understand the words, even...
...Romeo and Juliet (Chorus and soloists with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Munch; Victor, 2 LPs). Musical sweet talk in its sweetest, if not most stimulating, performance on records. Included are some meltingly graceful choruses (sung by Harvard and Radcliffe groups) and solos by Contralto Margaret Roggero, Tenor Leslie Chabay and Basso Yi-Kwei...