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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orchestral prelude left little doubt that this Tristan was in expert hands. Dressed in tuxedo trousers and open-throated shirt, Conductor Sawallisch led his orchestra through a performance marked by a water-clear sense of orchestral relationships and rock-sure control. He attacked at a slower than usual tempo, underscored the sensuous quality of the music without letting his orchestra wallow in it. There were the usual first-night flaws. During the second-act love duet, the word über-mächtig "vanished without trace" from Tenor Wolfgang Windgassen's memory. With a series of semaphore cues that...
Last week, as usual, The Last Word produced the rarest sound on TV: the crackle of civilized talk. When the panel considered the difference between genius and talent, Brown handily paraphrased James Russell Lowell ("Talent is what a man possesses. Genius is what possesses a man"), and added: "You speak of a talent scout, on the assumption that talent can be found, but I have never heard of a genius scout, even on Madison Avenue." Unable to agree on whether hey liked the editorial "we," the panelists agreed that what Evans called the "hospital 'we' or the emetic...
...great strides in the art of weather forecasting. In Hartford, Travelers Insurance Co.'s Meteorologist Dr. Thomas F. Malone has been working on an "odds system" of reporting, which tells radio listeners the precise odds on climate changes ("rain today: 6 out of 10") in contrast to the usual vague predictions. And even a small enterpriser like Houston's John C. Freeman Jr., 37, president of two-year-old Gulf Consultants, can make an important contribution. Two months ago Freeman completed a TV-sized electronic tide-telling machine, claims that it predicted a 10.7-ft. tide at Cameron...
...Russia's Yuri Stepanov could not achieve enough altitude to win a place on his nation's Olympic high-jumping squad. But last week, at a Leningrad meet, he took his usual short sprint toward the bar, flung himself skywards and crashed into the landing pit with a new world record...
...usual, there were some minuses scattered among the plus signs. The slumping U.S. paper industry, beset by a drop in demand and steadily rising costs, reported uniformly lower earnings. International Paper Co. dipped from $21.4 million in 1956's second quarter to about $16.5 million in the same period this year; Brown Co. and Mead Corp. were down 5% and 10% respectively. Devoe & Raynolds Co., Air Reduction Corp. and Grace (W.R.) & Co. reported that first-half earnings were lower than last year's levels...