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Peru's multi-octaved Yma Sumac, whose extraordinary voice ranges easily from a mockingbird soprano to a deep, womanly baritone, gave a concert in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, so impressed the Herald Tribune's Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson that he wrote: "She belongs in the great houses of opera." Said Yma, who claims to be 24: "It's too late for me to do it . . . [Besides,] I make very much more money than if I sang in two cr three operas a year for the Metropolitan...
...vice-presidency was finally won, 36 to 28, by John C. Eldridge '55 of Lowell House and Silver Springs, Md. John R. Thomson '57 of Weld Hall and Scarsdale, N.Y. was chosen operations director. He is currently secretary of the club and its only freshman officer...
Strategy for Yale works this way. Apeman Stu Thomson and his teammate Tom Henderson are being counted on to score heavily in the shot and weight threw; Bill Donegan and Harry Work, in the pole vault; Mike Stanley and Jack Meader in the 1,000 yard run; Joe Albanese and Ross Price, in the 600 yard run; and whomever Gigengack picks in the two-mile relay...
...York Giants traded the man who won them a pennant in 1951. Outfielder Bobby Thomson, 30, whose ninth-inning play-off homer beat Brooklyn, went to the Milwaukee Braves for Pitcher Johnny Antonelli in a six-player deal...
...Although the Figaro performance got good notices, the Met had a pretty rough week. Critic Virgil Thomson of the Herald Tribune took aim at the impressionistic new stage set with which Rudolf Bing & Co. have tried to brighten Don Giovanni, and let go with both barrels: "In this presentation, Don Giovanni lives just across the street from Donna Anna, but she does not recognize him when he tries to rape her ... All this residential proximity turns the story into a news item about how two ladies got rid of a criminal neighbor...