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Strauss: Wiener Blut (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Erich Kunz, Emmy Loose, Nicolai Gedda; Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus under Otto Ackermann; Angel, 3 sides of 2 LPs). Not so grand a ball as Die Fledermaus, Johann Strauss's masterpiece, this operetta is slighter but in spots even more delightful. A composite of Strauss music not originally written for the stage, the score is full of surprises: when sung, some of the waltzes and polkas take on a warbling charm they do not have as orchestra pieces alone. The libretto is preposterous, but offers linguists an unusually rich sampling of Viennese slang...
Married. Mrs. Mona Harrison Williams, 57, perennially "best dressed" widow of Public Utilitycoon Harrison Williams, who left her the bulk of his estimated $12 million fortune when he died 14 months ago, aged 80; and Count Albert Edward Bismarck, 51, interior decorator and grandson of Prince Otto von Bismarck, first chancellor of the German Empire; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Edgewater...
...middle, to the Cleveland 33. On the next play, Detroit lost the ball on a fumble; on the next Cleveland lost it on an interception. Detroit scored first, on a 36-yard field goal by Halfback Doak Walker. After that it was almost all Cleveland, and almost all Otto ("Ottomatic") Graham...
...Layne passed constantly and desperately, but Detroit could not score again. At last glacial Paul Brown had made it big. He had won his first "world championship"; he had wiped out the Lions' hex, and wiped the Lions' faces in the dirt. Not even reports of Otto Graham's retirement could spoil Coach Brown...
Carmen Jones. An all-Negro musical, with Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey and Harry Belafonte burning up Bizet's sound track; directed by Otto Preminger (TIME...