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Album troubles won't vanish completely even if the Class Committee and the Council do everything they're supposed. The problem is one of content more than anything else-a one-class book, put together by a one-year staff, can't be a topnotch publication. Freshmen interested in that type of work are drained off by the Red Book, and the late organization of the senior book always makes ontime publication nearly impossible. The '46 album, admittedly upset by the war, isn't out yet; the '47-'48 book, with energetic and skillful management, will be lucky...
Beyond the bare requirements there are drawbacks. There are a few really topnotch lecturers, and a high proportion of good scholars--but the two don't usually match; and there is a third category of men who don't rate high in either respect...
...Town Hall, Contralto Ferrier had no topnotch Glyndebourne production behind her, although she did have a familiar Euridice opposite her: U.S. Soprano Ann Ayars, who had sung the role with her in England and on records.#&134; But Conductor Thomas K. Scherman's Little Orchestra (38 players) and 40 singers from the Westminster Choir got into the graceful spirit of Gluck's music with the overture, and stayed in it to the last gaily triumphant note. It was, however, the dramatically restrained passion of Kathleen Ferrier's singing, in a voice that is even and full through...
...years ago, the Yale Record was a very funny magazine as I remember it, and the Lampoon was a very unfunny magazine. This paradox has been properly destroyed by the recent efforts of the two publications. The latest issue of the Lampoon contains some really topnotch cartoons and, more surprising, some amusing stories. The cartoon, "The New Overcoat," by Fred Gwynne, is timeless and rich enough to rate reprinting in the Lampoon in ten years or so, as will probably be the case...
Like any good businessman or golf pro, Ben Hogan loves to hear a dollar clink. Last year, his gross income ran to almost $90,000. Besides his tournament prize money, he drew down bonuses and royalties from MacGregor Golf, Inc., which uses his name on its topnotch golf clubs. He masterminds a ghost-written golf column for the McNaught Syndicate, and Power Golf has already sold 54,000 copies. He is pressed to give exhibitions, for which he charges $500 on weekdays, $700 on Saturdays and Sundays. Most of his money goes into the bank...