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Masters Missing. Stars of Salzburg's great days like Arturo Toscanini, Lotte Lehmann and Bruno Walter had refused invitations to perform. Instead the opening-night audience listened to 6 ft. 2 in. Hans Hotter, a Munich Opera baritone, sing a roughly hewn but virile hero in Mozart's Don Giovanni. The cast included a promising, pretty, 30-year-old Bulgarian soprano named Ljuba Welitsch, who was the hit of the Vienna opera season in Salome. Don Ottavio was sung by Yugoslav Tenor Anton Dermota, whose performance was uneven, but at its best better than any Don Ottavio that...
...black Cadillac sedan at its head. When the procession reached the end of the International Highway's hard surface, construction gangs served mezcal, drunk with maguey worm salt. Thereafter the road became a mule path that dipped into canyon beds, clung to mountainsides. The sun grew hotter, the dust thicker; passengers climbed out to lighten loads. In streams-shallow at the dry season-drivers parked to cool their tires...
...meeting grew hot, hotter. At the side of the packed room, a man climbed on a chair, shouted that he represented the U.S. Government. He did. He was tall, husky Lawyer William Gaston, 47, onetime husband of Cinemactress Kay Francis, now U.S. conciliator for New England. He had a "magic formula." He would meet company and union representatives separately-at once...
...bidding started at $5,000, went up at $5,000 a clip. As the bidding got hotter, Rodanz shed his cap and coat. Finally the price reached $48,000. Someone coaxed Rodanz: "Let's set another world's record." Rodanz loosened his tie, took a deep breath, then upped the ante $3,000. The bull was his for $51,000, after only six minutes of bidding...
...true that G.M. was on a hotter spot than Ford, put there by the U.A.W. strategy, which had singled it out as the first target to strike. But as the G.M. strike entered its fifth week and the language on both sides grew more violent, G.M.'s negotiators were no match for U.A.W.'s fiery, eloquent Walter Reuther...