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Vigil's End. In the withering preliminary rounds, the first to be weeded out were the conductors who, like a child walking a Great Dane, were unable to hold a tight rein on the Orchestra of America. In the semifinals, which none of a ten-man U.S. contingent was able to reach, the remaining 13 candidates were put through a musical obstacle course: they had to conduct the first movement of Berlioz' Symphonic Fantastique, Debussy's First Rhapsody for clarinet and piano, a recitative and aria from Beethoven's Fidelio, and a surprise modern piece-Andre...
...veteran is the greatest Dane of them all, Erik Bruhn, who at 37 is the supreme danseur noble. The finest technician on two feet, his endless pursuit of classic perfection forgoes the kind of passionate abandon that marks the style of Rudolf Nureyev, the only other dancer in his class. Says one ballerina: "Nureyev is like Callas singing Bellini; Bruhn is like Schwarzkopf singing Mozart." But Bruhn has learned something about characterization from his friend Nureyev. As Don Jose in Roland Petit's version of Carmen, Bruhn was a man possessed, a smoldering Valentino driven by lust and racked...
...earlier this month National Beer became majority stockholder in the Baltimore Orioles. Budweiser owns St. Louis' baseball Cardinals and Falstaff owns part of the football Cardinals. In addition, many beermen are seeking more effective ad campaigns by shuffling agencies; in one of the best campaigns, Rheingold and Doyle Dane Bernbach now appeal directly to New York's ethnic melting pot ("In New York City, where there are more Irishmen than in Dublin, more people drink Rheingold...
...Arthur John Gielgud, LL.D., actor-director. Restoration beau and antique Roman, Edwardian dandy and, above all, sable-suited Dane...
...Ledlie Prize, first awarded in '56, has gone to faculty members in several different fields: Robert B. Woodward, Donner Professor of Science, for work in chemical synthesis; Austin W. Scott, Dane Professor of Law, Emeritus, for legal research; Fritz J. Roethlisberger, Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Human Relations, for sociological research in industry