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...night five years ago, when young Thomas Schippers was conducting Menotti's The Consul on Broadway, he got so excited that the baton slipped from his fingers and sailed over his shoulder into the audience. Since then, Conductor Schippers (pronounced shippers) has kept a firm grip on his baton, earned resounding kudos for his performances at the New York City Opera, guest stints with symphony orchestras, and this season, for another Menotti opera, The Saint of Bleecker Street (TIME, Jan. 10). Last week Kalamazoo-born Conductor Schippers, 24, won his golden operatic spurs: the Metropolitan Opera signed...
...Crimson entry lost to Tech and Yale in the K of C Meet. In that race Jim Cairns fell while taking a baton pass and spoiled the time, Cairns, Mile Robertson, Zab Warron, and At Wills make up the two mile team...
Capt. Bob Rittenburg, who had previously reached the finals of the 45 yard high hurdles along with Joel Cohen, led off for the Crimson and handed the baton to Dave Alpers with a three-yard lead. Unofficially running the fastest quarter of 49.6, Alpers increased the lead to seven yards...
...Davis Cup Star Hamilton F. Richardson, 21, of Baton Rouge, for his tennis triumphs despite the handicap of diabetes (TIME...
...years ago to deliver a commencement address and was so struck by what she saw that she is still there: a California businessman who explained how a $9,000 bequest left to his family by a longtime Negro servant was turned over to Jones; the carpenter (now a Baton Rouge contractor) who turned the sheep pen into Jones's first schoolroom. At the program's end, Edwards explained that the school was crippled by its lack of an endowment and asked his viewers to mail $1 each to Educator Jones at Piney Woods, Miss. At week...