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...band played, floats lined the streets, a mob jammed the station and cheered. South Bend, Ind. was out in force to greet the NBC Opera Company as if it were a conquering football team. When the curtain opened on Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro in the new $2,500,000 arts center of St. Mary's College, the house was packed; when it closed, the audience was happily enthusiastic. It was a rousing send-off for a costly experiment by NBC -to send its opera company barnstorming across the country to bring first-rate opera to towns...
...South Bend last week, the NBC company ran into some of the troubles that all barnstormers are subject to; e.g., the sidelights were so blinding that one soprano twice bumped them heavily as she exited. But even so, the company had its listeners chortling at the gags as well as applauding the arias. Adler's opera is not great opera musically; it is not designed to be. But it may well prove his argument that opera can be popular and as easy to take as musical comedy. In the next weeks, the company, 100 strong including...
...ship rounded the bend into Suez Harbor, elation broke out all over the bridge. Shiaty. beaming with pride, called: "You happy, Captain?" Said Coppola: "Ten hours! In the 30 years I've been going through the canal, this is the fastest transit. The last trip took 18 hours, and the French pilot had so much wine that we had to keep him awake with coffee. I'm glad they're gone, these foreigners." "We don't need them," said Shiaty. "They won't be back." Then he shook hands with the captain and headed down...
Biting the Hand. Ever since Lawyer Butler came out of South Bend, Ind. to become Democratic chairman, he has persistently cried that the press−"the one-party press"−is unfair to Democrats. But his wail of "sabotage" against CBS was a case of biting off the hand that had been feeding him. CBS news coverage has been more than friendly to Butler's cause, and the punditing of its top commentators, Edward R. Murrow and Eric Sevareid, has been sharply slanted toward the Democratic side. It was CBS that, out of its own pocket, set up hourlong...
...issued his sweat pants until he leaves for home with a plan for daily exercise, he will be under close medical scrutiny and a Spartan regimen laid out by a board of 21 physicians. A 7 a.m. phone call will awaken him for 7:30 breakfast. Then he will bend, stretch, stoop in 30 minutes of calisthenics, plunge into steam and Finnish baths, face up to an "iron virgin"−drenching device which bombards the body with water from high-pressure jets. And after throwing medicine balls, punching bags, lifting dumbbells and a 30-minute rest in the "recovery room...