Word: falling
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...piece. Its talent scouts range the country to seek out new voices, and its stage provides a training ground for the best of them. The theater gave Elisabeth Soederstrom her start when she was fresh out of school, helped Kerstin Meyer prepare for her U.S. debut in Carmen this fall. Even Sweden's established stars -Birgit Nilsson, Set Svanholm, Jussi Bjoerling-owe some of their development and much of their musical education to the Drottningholm Theater...
...season the average Broadway show had the life expectancy of a mosquito on the belly of a four-armed Hindu Siva. Critics and public alike slapped plays down as soon as they appeared. But almost in spite of themselves, Broadway producers, having survived, are ready to try again. The fall list is so promising that it may well atone for the recent past...
Some of the higher lights of the fall...
Twelve years ago, just before the fall of Nationalist China, Roman Catholic Bishop James Edward Walsh went back to China (after 18 years of missionary work there) as executive secretary of the Catholic Central Bureau, coordinating Catholic missionary, cultural and welfare activities. In 1955, when offered repatriation with 21 other Americans, he refused. Last March the Communists announced that Bishop Walsh, 69, had been sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment for espionage and conspiracy. His brother, Judge William Concannon Walsh, 70, who still lives in Cumberland, applied for a visa to visit him. One morning early in July, a cable...
Last week, billing itself as "the fastest growing college in Mid-America," Parsons announced a booming fall enrollment of 1,487 students from 37 states. The debts are gone; the college is self-supporting from student fees alone. New buildings are sprouting, faculty salaries have almost tripled to an average $7,200, and gifts have nearly doubled to about $300,000 a year. What hit Parsons...