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...Wagner: Tristan & Isolde, Excerpts from Act III (Lauritz Melchior and Herbert Janssen with the orchestra of the Colon Opera, Buenos Aires, and the Columbia Opera Orchestra, Roberto Kinsky and Erich Leinsdorf, conductors; Columbia; 10 sides). A superb slice of Tristan's last act, including almost everything except the famed Liebestod (which is separately available). Melchior, greatest of living Tristans, sings his mad scene as though he meant it. Recording: excellent...
Johnston does not want social security extensions (hospitalization, sickness benefits, etc.) carried out federally, as provided by the Wagner-Murray-Dingall bill. Instead, he wants additions and improvements made by state and local governments, to minimize "the evil effect of bureaucracy and remote Washington control...
...Clark, feature writer of the Boston Sunday Globe, Edward W. Edstrom, assistant Sunday editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, A.B. Guthrie, Jr., city editor of the Lexington Herald-Leader, Ben Holstrom of the Minneapolis Star Journal and Tribune, Nathan W. Robertson, Washington correspondent of PM, and Charles A. Wagner, Sunday editor of the New York Mirror...
Late one afternoon last week Republican bigwigs began arriving on the veranda of the Governor's antiquated Albany mansion to discuss an important question with Tom Dewey: Who should be the Republican nominee for the Senate seat of famed New Dealer Robert Wagner? But Tom Dewey had an answer ready. By the Governor's usual bedtime the conferences were over and the opposition candidates resigned to the inevitable. Next day, before lunch, the Governor's candidate was nominated...
Curran's political virtues were obvious: his appeal for the normally Democratic Catholic voting group, notably lacking on the State Republican ticket, his Manhattan strength, and his record in the Republican Party. But many a thoughtful Republican wondered whether Curran's best would be enough. Senator Wagner is 67 years old, but he has shaken off the persisting ill health which has checkered his recent years in the Senate with absenteeism. And Bob Wagner is still well-armored by his reputation as the author of early New Deal labor legislation. He has a steady independent following...