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Manhattan has seen many of them but last week it recognized the first good one in a long time. Nearly every classic Italian comic opera has a basso buffo, a comic bass. He wears a false nose, false belly, or both, and is not expected to have much of a voice. Fourteen years ago, when Arturo Toscanini conducted Milan's great La Scala opera, he asked one of his young bassos, Salvatore Baccaloni, to specialize in buffo roles, so that La Scala need not rely on rickety-voiced oldsters...
Knollenberg experienced no unusual difficulties until 1775. In that year Washington took the revolutionary limelight, began to write letters and make comments on which classic U. S. historians have relied for their record and interpretation of much Revolutionary history. To historians like John Fiske, George Bancroft, Worthington Chauncey Ford, Paul Leicester Ford, Washington's word was almost sacrosanct. Reluctantly, Historian Knollenberg concluded that it wasn't. Yet others went on believing Washington. To correct ("in some measure") this prejudice, Knollenberg wrote Washington and the Revolution...
...includes all the more favorable things that some 125 writers of prose and verse have had to say about mothers. It is jacketed, as inevitably as baldness, with Whistler's sour old dam. Considering its subject and its editor, The Mothers' Anthology will doubtless become a household classic. Most of its readers will probably be mothers, and they will have every reason to enjoy themselves. For non-mothers, the book has interest too. Representing some of the world's greatest writers and some of the worst, it shows how the idea of motherhood affected them...
Without suitable material, of course, Shaughnessy could never have turned the trick. The classic, old T formation, revived and effectively used by the professional Chicago Bears (whom Shaughnessy used to watch with envious eyes during his seven frustrated years as University of Chicago coach), requires three fast-starting backs. Stanford's Norman Standlee, Frankie Albert and Pete Kmetovic filled the requirement...
...bringing a little of the old world into the College, the language center on the third floor of the Union affords students a chance to dip into French and German culture at their leisure. Although emphasizing contemporary literature, the library contains many classic works in its 3000 book collection...