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During July concerts will be given at Perugia, 1; Rome, 3,4; Pavia, 6; Verona, 8; Venice, 10; Munich, 12; Freiburg, 13; Berlin, 18; Hannover, 20; Ibbenburen, 21; Bonn, 22. They will sing at Emmanuel College, John Harvard's school at Cambridge, July 23. London will hear concerts July...
Political Career: Elected to Parliament in 1931 for a Bedfordshire seat that he has held ever since. As elegant backbencher he praised Franco, Mussolini and Hitler, joined the Friends of Franco, and overenthusiastically defended Munich ("Hitler could absorb Czechoslovakia and Britain could remain secure"). When Churchill replaced Chamberlain and obviously had little relish for Lennox-Boyd's views, he joined the coastal navy, but continued to show up in the House of Commons every time his escort vessel touched a Channel port. He caught the eye of the late Oliver Stanley, an imperialist Tory who was rethinking Britain...
...wowed the crowd. In Amsterdam, U.S. Coloratura Soprano Marilyn Tyler accepted a rush call to sing Violetta in La Traviata, although she sang in unpopular German while the rest of the cast sang in Italian. After the first act, a year's contract was offered to her. In Munich, U.S. Tenor Howard Vandenburg arrived unannounced, auditioned and was hired on the spot. All over Europe, and especially in Germany, young American singers are singing for European audiences, hoping to follow in the paths of such Europe-polished Americans as Coloratura Mattiwilda Dobbs, Mezzo-Soprano Risë Stevens, Contralto Jean...
...which to employ them, while Germany had rebuilt its 80 opera houses faster than it could replace their depleted ranks of singers. Americans flocked in, were often hired over Germans of comparable ability simply because of their healthy good-looks. German audiences, with their insatiable hunger for opera (Munich alone puts on more performances in a year than all major U.S. companies combined), showed no resentment...
...teams (14 from countries outside the Soviet bloc) to compete as "national teams" in the long run (twelve days of pedaling, one day's rest). "There isn't one of them who could place in the first 30 in the Tour de France," grumbled a Munich sports editor last week. But, wherever they came from, the cyclists, at least, took the race seriously. And their determination was, as usual, sufficient to make the competition for a big bomb-shaped "peace" cup something less than pacific...