Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bing thought over his new job of running the world's greatest opera house-an institution which went $233,000 into the red in 1947-48, and almost failed to open last season at all, until its unionized workers unwillingly agreed to pass up raises. In his forthright way, Bing had lots of confidence. The job had "just blown up suddenly," he said, but it apparently was not too much of a surprise: "For 15 years, I have known that some day I would reach that goal...
...Vienna, in Berlin, and since 1934 in England. He was well aware that "the artistic and commercial ends of opera management chase each other like a snake biting its own tail." He was hopeful about the unions. During the war, when Glyndebourne shut up shop, he had worked his way from clerk to the front office of a London department store. "I got on all right with the shop assistants; perhaps I will get on with the musicians' union...
...ripe age for big-league golf, Samuel Jackson Snead was burning up the courses like a Virginia grass fire. He shot hard and accurate golf to win the Masters Tournament in April, and he was red-hot last week as he stroked his way to the P.G.A. championship at Richmond's Hermitage Country Club. In between times, Sam was warm enough to scoop up seven other prizes, boosting his winnings for the year to $12,610, tops in the trade. Unless something put the fire out he figured to have the biggest of all tournaments, this week...
...engines that go into Moore's cars are the same (Offenhausers made by the Meyer & Drake Engineering Corp.) that are used in most other racing cars. But Master Mechanic Moore does not use them the way they come from the factory. He pulls down each engine to the last nut & bolt, polishes intake and exhaust valves, magnafluxes each part to see if any hidden defects exist. He buys the chassis, too, adding his own refinements in design...
...Denmark has been inviting foreign troupers to re-enact the tragedy right at the scene of the crimes. (Among its title-role guests: Sir Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud.) Next week, at the latest revival, Elsinore's visiting players will have traveled for the first time all the way from...