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...moonless night last week off Korea's northeastern coast, a party of British commandos and U.S. marines put out in small boats from the fast transport Horace A, Bass. The Americans were serving with the 41st Royal Marine commandos, commanded by Lieut. Colonel Ferris Grant, a Londoner. The raiders' objective: the Communist east-coast rail line along which vital supplies were flowing from Vladivostok to Wonsan...
Near Tanchon, about 170 miles north of the 38th parallel, the party made shore under a covering barrage from the Bass and the U.S. destroyer Tingey. That part of the coast was well watched and well defended, and Colonel Grant's men ran into Red machine-gun fire. Nevertheless, they managed to blow up a tunnel before scrambling back to their boats. They left many Communist dead and their own casualties were light...
Conley was cast in the difficult role of the Sicilian patriot Arrigo, and at first his small but silvery tenor seemed hemmed in by the sumptuous sounds of Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas (also U.S.-born) and the rumbling bass of Bulgarian Boris Christoff. But by the second act his voice had warmed up, and so had the elegant and traditionally indifferent first-night audience. When the final curtain came down on the blood-bathed stage, Milanese were shouting "Conelay, Conelay" from their carnation-decked boxes...
...duet with him on the piano? Russian Composer Alexander Borodin beamed-it was news to him that his little girl could play at all. But he listened while she picked out "Chopsticks" with a finger of each hand. Fascinated, he began to improvise a ten-finger accompaniment in the bass while she pecked...
...biggest individual triumph belonged to young (30) U.S.-trained, Vienna-seasoned Bass-Baritone George London (TIME, Jan. 9, 1950), making his Met debut as Amonasro. The Herald Tribune's exacting Virgil Thomson reached deep into his accolade box for a proper one, decided that London "took his place among the greatest singing actors we have any of us known or remembered...