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...come to give a concert in Carnegie Hall (Gulda had been required to join a Nazi youth group at the age of ten). Famed Conductor Victor de Sabata, who conducted at Tanglewood earlier this year and was coming again as guest conductor for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, had conducted Milan's La Scala orchestra during the Mussolini regime. A German war bride of Philadelphia, returning from a visit to her mother in Germany, was detained because she had belonged to a Hitler youth organization in her teens. The Metropolitan Opera's mezzo-soprano, Fedora Barbieri, was held...
...Milan, Italy, Armando Filiput over time, by ⅜ of a second, to set a new world record of 51.9 sec. for the 440-yd. hurdles...
...jolly, volatile Ramon Vinay has plenty of time. A onetime baritone who once gave up singing to run a box factory in Mexico (which he still owns), he already holds the title to the role of Otello at the Met and Milan's La Scala. Now, with Melchior gone from the Met, Vinay will have a good chance at the Tristan title too. A "delighted" Rudi Bing thought Vinay was already "one of the best Tristans I've ever heard...
...daughter of an orchestral cellist, Tebaldi always took a singing career for granted. Five years ago a scout from Milan's La Scala heard her operatic debut in Rovigo, near Venice, signed her at once. Since then, she has been one of La Scala's youngest and most promising stars...
Said Lucia Chase, "We realize this is what they want from us, but sometimes we wish they would let us do a little more classical ballet just to show what we can do." There would be plenty of chance elsewhere: Ballet Theatre still has Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Rome, Milan, Venice, Alexandria and Cairo on its calling list...