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...months the Metropolitan Opera had endured the barbs of its critics (TIME, Sept. 6 et seq.) with hardly a whimper. Last week, during an intermission of a nationally broadcast performance (and a good one) of The Marriage of Figaro, Met Board Chairman George A. Sloan finally started hurling the barbs back. Some fell in the target area; a few made bull's-eyes...
...gets tagged on the jaw, slugged with a blackjack, kicked in the head and punched orie-eyed in a boxing bout. Since most of this mauling is done by thugs who work for the husband of his beautiful, frozen-faced girl (Alexis Smith), poor dear Dane suffers without a whimper. Toward the end, there is some talk of sending him off to a hospital to have his head examined-an idea which might have saved a lot of trouble earlier in the story...
...Council decision, to go ahead with the original short poll plan, will have little bearing on the situation. For no matter what any poll will ultimately prove, the University can now sit tight for two months and let the present annoyance over food die down to an occasional whimper. Given this respite, the University may conceivably survive the rumbling storm of student protest this year, unless something extraordinary pops up again in the dining halls which student opinion cannot stomach...
...conference on Danube navigation closed with a Western whimper last week, just about the only thing the U.S. could smile about was a news picture from Belgrade (see cut). It showed Russia's Andrei Vishinsky in earnest conversation with Yugoslavia's Ales Bebler. The naked lady who turns away from M. Vishinsky with chaste horror is Truth Warding Off Evil, by the Croat sculptor, Frano Krshinich...
When she was a year old, anemic Beverly was taken to Akron's Children's Hospital. A deep injection of liver extract for anemia is painful, and babies usually howl vigorously when they get one-but not Beverly; she didn't even whimper. Hospital doctors examined her more closely. They decided that she really is a "painless" baby suffering from "indifference to injury, of congenital origin"; she cries only when hungry or angry. It is a rare condition (first described ten years ago by Johns Hopkins Neurologist Frank R. Ford), probably due to a defect...