Word: wilted
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...Ljuba Welitch, soprano, with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia, 1 side LP). Next to her lurid Salome, red-haired Bulgarian Soprano Welitch gets her biggest hand at the Met in the role of the vengeance-seeking Donna Anna. A lesser man than the dashing Don would wilt before the fury of this thousand-volt voice. Recording : excellent...
Father of the Bride (M-G-M). Hustled into the theaters before Heroine Elizabeth Taylor's real-life bridal bouquet had time to wilt, this adaptation of Edward Streeter's gently sardonic 1949 bestseller* has all it takes to send moviegoers hustling right in after it. In the expert hands of Scripters Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, the story of an adoring parent's ordeal is still pointedly human, delightfully funny...
...starter's gun, Don Gehrmann had grabbed the lead, set the pace for a slow 64-second quarter. Villanova's John Joe Barry had taken over the pace-setter's role for the next five laps; then it was FBI Man Wilt's turn. For the next ai laps Special Agent Wilt ran his own race, with Gehrmann at his heels. Eighty yards from home, Gehrmann moved into high gear, passed Wilt, won by eight yards...
...time was 4:09.5, a shade slower than the 4:09.3 at which both men had been clocked in the Wanamaker. But Gehrmann was content; he was thinking about those eight yards of air between him and Fred Wilt. Said he: "I guess they can't argue about that...
...hassle over the Wanamaker is still going on. Gehrmann, first judged the winner, has appealed the later decision to give the prize to Wilt...