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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Metropolitan Opera likes to keep one or two operettas in its repertory, if only for purposes of New Year's Eve entertainment. In the past, Manager Rudolf Bing has done well with Strauss's Die Fledermaus and Offenbach's La Péri-chole. Last week the Met unveiled a dazzling production of another Strauss operetta, The Gypsy Baron. While it might please properly champagned New Year's Eve audiences, the Met's Gypsy is more than half a failure for ordinary, year-round consumption...
...Victoria P. Coffey and William J. E. Jessop followed the histories of 1,326 women at three Dublin hospitals, half of whom had Asian flu while pregnant. Of 663 flu victims, 639 had normal babies while 24 had malformed children. Among an equal number of women who escaped flu, 653 had normal babies and only ten lad malformed children. There was no notable difference in the number of still or premature births. The malformations, concentrated among the women who had had flu in the first three months of pregnancy, were mainly in the central nervous system and included a disproportionate...
STUDEBAKER-PACKARD merger with Oliver Corp. will bring S-P into the farm-equipment business. S-P proposes to buy Oliver for $83 million, giving Oliver stockholders 7/10 of a share of Studebaker-Packard for every share of Oliver, plus $15 per share in cash...
ALLEGHANY FIGHT is heading for showdown after compromise attempts failed. Chairman Allan P. Kirby has withdrawn offer to give Boston Financier Abraham Sonnabend a seat on Allegheny's board, will not extend a second otter to buy 200,000 shares of stock claimed by Sonnabend, and challenges him to a proxy fight. Sonnabend is mum on plans, has not yet filed statement of proxy intentions with...
...HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 6--A student conference on disarmament and atomic was attracted over 1300 students here today to hear among others Sen. Hubert M. Humphrey and Carlos P. Romulo, Philippine Ambassador...