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...acclaimed U.S. debut in Lucrezia Borgia, RCA Victor quickly signed her to make a recording of the opera. But not quickly enough. A black-market version of her debut was already selling briskly for $25. Artists, who naturally get no royalties from the piratings, are equally irritated. Mezzo-Soprano Regina Resnik, rummaging through a record bin a few years ago, was startled to hear a recording of Wagner's Ring cycle, whose label listed a cast of singers and an opera company she had never heard of. "You know who that is singing?," she cried at the proprietor. "That...
...were spritely enough to convince the judges that Ingrid, a Miss Germany from Niirnberg, should be crowned Miss International Beauty at Long Beach, Calif. As usual, all the other girls in the contest beamed pluckily through their disappointment, but back in Manhattan there was one who didn't: Regina Ruta, the Lithuanian-born blonde who was chosen Miss New York City last month and then disqualified because her U.S. citizenship had not yet come through. She announced that she is giving up beauty contests forever to become a veterinarian...
...compiling this 500,000-word chronicle, Historian Morison had the amiable notion of lacing the chapters with the appropriate music of each period. He starts off with an old Navajo war chant and the Salve Regina sung by the Spanish sailors bound for the New World. He ends, so many chants and prayers, hymns and ditties, marches and dirges later, with Camelot...
...student University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon studies northern lights and the ionosphere by launching its own rockets at Fort Churchill on Hudson Bay. The university has grown beyond its 2,600-acre campus, with Gothic greystone buildings, to acquire a 1,300-acre branch in Regina. The new school has a campus designed by Architect Minoru Yamasaki; among its teachers is a visiting professor from Moscow University...
...Regina, Sask...