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...week, Schippers showed what he could do with an orchestra that only the week before, at the opening of Fidelia (TIME, Feb. 8), had sounded ragged and disorganized. "Tommy" Schippers had never conducted Verdi's Forza before, but he led orchestra and singers (Soprano Leonie Rysanek, Tenor Richard Tucker, both in top form) with a muscular authority that injected grand drama into every twist and turn of the tortuous plot. For Schippers, the essence of a good performance is spontaneity, and to achieve it when a performance becomes dull, he has been known to "make a deliberate mistake-like...
...shimmy got its name. World War I had just ended, and the new dance and the girl who invented it sluiced east ward toward Broadway on a rising tide of bathtub gin and needled beer. By then, Maryanna had become Mary Gray. But Red Hot Mamma Sophie Tucker caught her act and told her that Mary was no handle for a hoofer. Sophie looked at the spun-gold hair above the lithe, slim shape and decreed that Mary should be Gilda...
...return of students, University Hall announces that tuition has risen to $1400 in order to keep pace with other colleges in the Ivy League. A communique from President Pusey to Yale President Griswold reading "Raise You 50!" is discovered by reporters. Board charges rise to $1000 and Director Carl Tucker explains, "Everything is going up these days--1000 is a nice round number...
...This is the first time the workings of the Department have been so thoroughly explored," commented Carle T. Tucker, director of the Dining Halls. The inquiry resulted largely from the Administration's desire to minimize any rise in board charges next year...
Checkers worked in Adams, Kirkland, Lowell, and Winthrop, noting both the amount of food students picked up and the quantities left over after the meal. However, Tucker observed that results of the survey may not be fully valid, since "students do not consume as much food as normal when they are being checked...