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With All Due Respect Lawrence Tibbett, now in his 26th year of baritoning for the Metropolitan Opera, was given a little backstage party and a few handsome knickknacks in honor of the first 25 years. Still in costume from Benjamin Britten's gloomy Peter Grimes (see cut), Larry told his coworkers: "An expression of love from your colleagues is the dearest and most stimulating thing in the world. Now look at what you've done! Tonight you've started me off on another 25 years...
Lend an Ear was written for the Pittsburgh Playhouse just before the war. One version lasted two weeks in a summer theater in 1941; another opened this June in Los Angeles, where it is now entering its 26th week. The 18 numbers in the Broadway version include only four from the 1941 original. It had incubated so long that a straight-faced Latin number had to be rewritten as a parody of itself...
...Miami's Orange Bowl on Christmas night, he indicated yesterday this would not interfere with his basketball. "I'll be able to play in all the games, including the Missouri Valley Conference competition," Chip pointed out. "We had planned to leave New York for Kansas City on the 26th of December, anyway, and now I'll just leave from Miami instead...
...Since then, Joe had been thinking it over. He still kept on needing money, and voices kept reminding him that all he had to do was say the word and collect $500,000 or so. Last week, Joe said the word. He would defend his heavyweight title, for the 26th time, next June, probably against the least bad of three unpromising contenders-Lee Savold, Ezzard Charles or Joe Baksi...
Died Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt 87 widow of the 26th President of the U.S.; in Oyster Bay, N.Y. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...