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...newsmen with a sheaf of 5-in.-by-7-in. cards in his hands. On the cards was typed, in extra big size, a new statement. As he read, licking a finger now and then to dislodge the cards from the stack, the President boomed the words out in bass tones. "The intense publicity lately surrounding the name of Sherman Adams makes it desirable, even necessary, that I start this conference with an expression of my own views about the matter...
...signal flags. This vehicle was trundled off the Boston Public Garden's stage last week and sent moonward with a bang, a yellow flash and an ominous puff of smoke. From there on, with the help of a first-rate cast (Tenors Norman Kelley and David Lloyd, Bass Baritone Donald Gramm, Sopranos Adelaide Bishop and Lorena Spence), the opera worked its way to the moon and back, picking up a Purple People Eater as it went along...
...This tale is set to an expansive, thickly melodic score which rarely bears any relation to the frenzies on stage but occasionally strikes some fine Straussian and Puccinian sparks. Recorded by a top-notch cast (including Dutch Soprano Gré Brouwenstijn, Tenor Hans Hopf, Baritone Paul SchÖffler, Bass Oskar Czerwenka), the album provides opera buffs with a rare look at a gifted but remote composer...
Sinker. In Burnet, Texas, Dave Hawk took a commanding lead in the state bass-fishing tournament, reached shore, was given a summons by a game warden for catching too many fish...
...deer, birds and flowers. Tree surgery, fertilizing, etc. In early spring, tap maples for syrup. Cut down dead trees, sawing and chopping. Target practice with .22 rifle . . . Trips to fishermen's harbor, checking on supplies in stone house, and buying trout or whitefish from commercial fishermen. Clean black bass, perch or rock bass we have caught. Pick wild strawberries, raspberries or bilberries, according to season. On rainy days F. often works on speeches, particularly before dinner. J. typewrites...