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Making his Manhattan rounds, from a 9 a.m. appointment at Gracie Mansion with Mayor Robert Wagner, to lunch at Hampshire House with Prendergast and De Sapio, to a sundown session in Lehman's Park Avenue apartment, to a midnight dinner with Anthony Akers, perennial candidate for Congress in the rich, Republican, silk-stocking district of Manhattan, Bobby left no faction unfaced. His approach was friendly but firm...
Despite the claims of such chic newcomers as Spoleto, Europe's two most important music festivals remain Salzburg and Bayreuth. As they opened last week-Bayreuth with new productions of all four operas of Richard Wagner's Ring, and Salzburg with a new Festspielhaus reputed to be the world's most technically advanced theater-both festivals were musically still far ahead of most other summer fare, but seemed disappointing compared to the success of past seasons...
...Bayreuth, Wagner's grandson Wolfgang was up. to his old tricks: stripped down, sparsely lighted productions designed to free the stern old gods of Valhalla from heavy, cardboard-shield and plaster-throne cliches. But by now, this once revolutionary style has produced some bothersome clichés of its own. The basic stage set of last week's Ring was an eight-ton, segmented concave disk looking somewhat like a huge radar antenna. In the second and fourth Rheingold scenes it was used intact, tilted toward the audience to suggest the rugged slopes of Wotan's mountain...
...Manhattan, Boxer Patterson, who regained his title in June from Sweden's Ingemar Johansson and plans to defend it in Los Angeles Nov. i, starred in a coronation ceremony witnessed by such fight fans as U.S. Attorney General William P. Rogers, New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner and Grand Old Democrat James A. Farley. His gift, symbolizing good behavior and pugilistic excellence: a jazzy gold crown peppered with diamonds, rubies and sapphires. Value, by D'Amato's estimate: $35,000. . . . Of all the U.S. ladies least likely to seem a homebody, Oldtime Stripper Gypsy Rose...
...logic took a back seat as Jack's friends came forward. Joe Louis, a well-wisher at Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa's bribery trial in 1957, turned up amid popping flashbulbs to say a showy hello. Mayor Robert F. Wagner, appearing under subpoena, marched to the defense table, pumped Jack's hand and lauded Jack as "a conscientious public servant." His Honor was echoed by such Democratic bigwigs as Comptroller Lawrence E. Gerosa, Brooklyn Borough President John Cashmore, City Council President Abe Stark and Queens Borough President John T. Clancy, who boomed "Hi, kid," as he grabbed...