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...title of Italy's No. 1 music patron. The slim, white-haired nobleman has remodeled his vast, 800-year-old palazzo in Siena to house a concert hall and theater, gathered together one of Europe's finest music libraries. On the count's payroll are the topnotch Siena quintet (now known as the Quintette Chigiana), the choirmaster of Siena's newly organized town choir, the visiting artists who perform each winter in the Chigi-underwritten concert season. Each fall, moreover, the count backs Siena's big' week-long festival of Italian music...
...failure to show up for work, she locked herself in the bathroom, broke a water glass and scratched herself on the neck with the ragged edge. The Los Angeles Mirror headlined JUDY GARLAND CUTS THROAT-and all the sob sisters were off in full cry. Judy's husband, topnotch Director Vincente (The Clock) Minnelli, assured reporters that the incident was "too trivial" to discuss...
This is not to say that Annie Get Your Gun is not an entertaining movie. The Irving Berlin tunes are topnotch: "Show Business," "Doin' What Comes Naturally," "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun," "Falling in Love," "The Sun in the Morning and the Moon at Night," "The Girl I Marry." And even though Betty Hutton feels compelled to keep in constant and anatomically miraculous motion during her songs, she still has the bounce and fire required for any successor to Ethel Merman...
...Voice originates in three bustling, crowded office buildings on Manhattan's West 57th Street, in a peculiar atmosphere compounded of foreign accents, glue, bureaucracy and an enthusiasm not often found in government departments. Few men on the Voice staff are topnotch professionals; most work exceptionally hard, and have, on the whole, done a good job. Boss of the Voice is Foy D. Kohler, 42, an Ohioan and a veteran foreign service career man with years of duty which have given him a patient smile and a prematurely wrinkled face. Responsible for Voice policy is able ex-Newspaperman Edward Barrett...
Astronomy 1 is the Department's bread-and-butter course. With little math and no prerequisites, the course is topnotch distribution but often child's play for the embryonic major. It is not required for concentration, and many students skip...