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Chandler blamed one man above all others for his undoing: St. Louis Lawyer Fred Saigh (rhymes with high), owner since 1949 of the St. Louis Cardinals. "I understand Saigh is going around telling people he put it over," an unhappy Happy told reporters. Owner Saigh had indeed led the fight against Happy ("vindictive" and "hypocritical" were among Saigh's words for him), but Saigh had obviously had allies among the other clubs.* Moreover, the anti-Chandler owners had had an unintentional ally in Happy himself. Four days before the voting, Happy had blabbed to reporters that he thought...
...University of Miami's Coach Andy Gustafson, fresh from an undefeated season, a new ten-year contract to put beside his team's Orange Bowl invitation...
Though developed on TV, Captain Video's influence is not limited to its round-eyed televiewers. Last month Fawcett Publications put the captain between the covers of a comic book. Last week Columbia Pictures announced the filming of a 15-episode movie serial based on the captain's adventures. Says Caddigan proudly: "I guess we've arrived...
...Haydn Society, assuring him it would "pyramid faster than Florida real estate." With his bonanza money, he hired a photographer and a musicologist, sent them up & down Austria, Germany and Hungary collecting and microfilming Haydn manuscripts. He also recorded the Nelson Mass, which sold 5,000 copies, put the society...
Haydn Society musicologists turned detective to put the score together. Haydn composed the opera in London in 1791 when he was 59, on a commission from the Prince of Wales (afterwards George IV). On the day of the premiere, King George III, who was sponsoring a rival theater and tiffing with the Prince, closed up the Orfeo theater with troops. Haydn pocketed his ?300, forgot the opera for the time being. Landon found one score in Berlin's State Library, another in the Esterhazy archives of Budapest's State Library, but both were incomplete. At one point...