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...Live Duck. Pioneering began early. In its second year, the company became one of the first to break the color barrier in opera, starring Negro Baritone Robert Todd Duncan in I Pagliacci. Mixing "ham-and-eggs repertoire"-A'ida, La Boheme, Carmen-with such rarely performed works as Ermanno...
...held by the Federal National Mortgage Association. Expected income: $4.7 billion. It also will continue emptying out the federal stockpiles. In fiscal 1967, in addition to selling off copper and aluminum, the Government plans to dump onto the private market such fascinating commodities as 3,866,178 Ibs. of duck feathers, 129 million Ibs. of castor oil, 12 million carats of industrial diamonds, and 39,851 Ibs. of opium (used, respectively, for sleeping bags, paints, cutting tools and medical morphine). Expected income: $2 billion...
...luxury, what Le Pavilion's customers most appreciated was the food, which was classic French cooking. There was no tampering with recipes, as there was no single specialty. For Soule, everything was a specialty, from tasty crabmeat timbale with its light sauce, to the roast duck with peaches, through the tender, flaky strawberry tart. No restaurant served younger partridges, earlier truffles, or more tender asparagus...
...select - largely musicians, musicologists, music teachers and students. They were gathered to hear the neglected music of P.D.Q. Bach, the least-known offspring of Johann Sebastian. The opening Concerto for Horn and Hardart got off to a lively start when blaaaaaaat! It was Soloist Peter Schickele blowing on a duck caller attached to the "concert grand Hard-art," a four-wheel, coin-operated contraption that looked like a junkyard reject. As the music went sailing off in directions unknown, Schickele merrily blasted away on a kazoo, ocarina, bike horns, buzzers and doorbells. For a finale, he punctured six balloons with...
...Duck began its bold sniping in 1915, during some of the bleakest days of World War I, when its dry wit turned out to be just what was needed to combat wartime hysteria. At the time, the French press was frantically reporting every defeat as a glorious victory. The Duck did not set out to correct these inaccuracies. Instead, it claimed the biggest victories of all, until it began to make all war reporting look ridiculous. On one occasion, when the press was clucking in astonishment over a German submarine that had traveled as far as the U.S. coast...