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...LOUIS WOLFSON, who bought control of Washington's Capital Transit in 1949 for $2,189,160, milked it, then lost its franchise when Congress got angry about a 52-day strike, may reap even more than an estimated $5,300,000 profit for himself and his group. National City Lines of Chicago has offered to buy Capital for $13.4 million, and if deal goes through, Wolfson will receive $56 on each share for which he paid $20, emerge with a $9,500,000 total profit (before taxes), a whopping 332% return...
...Harry A. Wolfson '11, Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, has won the first annual Faculty Prize of the Harvard University Press for his book, "The Philosophy of the Church Fathers," according to Thomas J. Wilson, Director of the University Press...
...Ranges & Registers. Jenny's teacher is an intense, grizzled, German-born man named Alfred Wolfson, 59, who made his living after World War I as a remedial voice trainer, fled to London after Hitler took power, and there developed a theory that is now almost an obsession. "Man has misjudged, underestimated, neglected and finally stultified his voice," he says. "Man has elevated the sin against nature to a dogma, the dogma of those strictly confined, neatly labeled categories: male voice and female, high voice and low, child's voice and adult's. In reality, the natural human...
...Wolfson points to some ten pupils to illustrate his theory. He has a tape recording of one of them singing all the principal roles of The Magic Flute, from the Queen of the Night's famously difficult coloratura (F above the staff) to Sarastro's well-deep basso (F below the bass staff). A group of four women students recorded the minuet from a Haydn string quartet, singing cello, viola and violin parts. One boy has recorded his rumbles and squeaks over a range of seven octaves, a young man has produced close to nine under Wolfson...
First of a New Kind. Jenny Johnson is Wolfson's star pupil, the first with a quality fit for critics. After showing documents to prove that she has no structural abnormality in her voice mechanism, she sings the high notes of a coloratura selection, then switches to her male tenor voice for Ridi, Pagliaccio without apparent strain. Says Wolfson: "The famous larynx of gold of great singers is just a legend. Everyone possesses one." In Wolfson's dream Jenny and her co-pupils will be the first with a new kind of voice; it may have...