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...After a candlelit dinner, they both phoned their happy news to Los Angeles Columnist Harrison Carroll. Came the dawn, and Glenn was on the phone again. "Ridiculous," he snorted. They were "only kidding." Not so Linda. "Glenn proposed," she insisted. "He was so nervous he had three helpings of Wiener schnitzel. I think he should go to a rest camp." Instead, he went out with Rita Hayworth, and Linda's six-word telegram flew at his fickle heels: "Drop dead-and I'm not kidding...
Power to Spare. The real standouts, however, were Tenor Sandor Konya as Walther and Baritone Otto Wiener, who was making his Met debut in the role of Sachs. Hungarian-born Tenor Konya displayed a voice that had warmth, agility and power to spare; in his last act Prize Song he came as close as any man can to stopping a Wagnerian opera in its tracks. Baritone Wiener did not have a voice of flogging power, but he dominated the stage by sheer dramatic invention; he made Sachs a completely human figure...
...Wayne G. Barnett '50 of the United States Solicitor-General's Office; John F. Dooling, Jr., U.S. District Judge for Eastern New York; Erwin N. Griswold, dean of the Law School; Edmund M. Morgan, Royall Professor of Law, Emeritus; Elliot L. Richardson '41, Boston attorney; and Frederick B. Wiener, Washington lawyer...
...chicken and roast beef; avocados and chow mein have become stock greengrocer or chain-store items. Moreover, the lower class, with more money to spend, has adopted what was once an upper-class custom: dining out. Women's magazines read mainly by the working class carry recipes for wiener schnitzel and French dressing, discuss the Scandinavian look in furniture, and French perfumes. One family in four has a refrigerator, compared to one in eight only a year ago. Status is measured in terms of latex-backed rugs, papered ceilings and motor scooters. One housewife told a reporter last week...
...National Geographic. It is full of scenic wonders-a Carlsbad spa with fountains spouting real water, a Christmas vision of Old Vienna filigreed in confectioner's icing, a wedding extravaganza such as only Broadway angels can afford. In and about these Oliver Smith settings cavort the Wiener Burger, garbed by Lucinda Ballard in resplendent turn-of-the-century costumes. Unfortunately, there is little more to this comic operetta than meets the eye, or greets the ear in a waltzy-schmalzy score. The best way to simulate an evening at The Gay Life is to do what is done onstage...