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...third volume, completing the biographies through the class of 1689. He died the same year, but Librarian Sibley was too dedicated a man to let his own death interfere with his life's work. From his underweight salary-never more than $2,000 a year-and some shrewd investments, he had scraped together an impressive estate that, by his wife's death in 1902, had swelled to $161,169. His will directed that it be given in trust to the Historical Society to continue the project...
Rossini: The Barber of Seville (Maria Callas, Tito Gobbi, Luigi Alva, Nicola Zaccaria, Fritz Ollendorff; Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Alceo Galliera; Angel, 3 LPs). Callas' adroitly wrought Rosina strikes a precarious balance between bubbly naivetè and a subliminal Latin wisdom as shrewd as a fishwife's eye. The Callas voice is in soaring form, buttressed by Baritone Gobbi's smooth, superbly flexible rendering of the role of Figaro and Basso Zaccaria's sumptuous, tomfoolish Basilio. Conductor Galliera provides the coherence and dramatic drive necessary to Rossini's comic frenzy...
Early this year, with the U.S. worried about unemployment at home, the outlook for freer trade seemed bleak. Only three weeks before the House voted, it looked as if the Administration bill was still in serious trouble. What routed the protectionists against apparent odds was a shrewd, hard-hitting campaign waged by an alliance between the Administration and House leaders of both parties. The major influences...
...everlasting detail of work was Gulbenkian's religion, art and women were his sports. In art, Gulbenkian polished his own tastes, finally acquired by shrewd trading what was one of the finest private collections in the world, ranging from Rembrandts and Rubenses to Paul Chabas' famed September Morn. As for women, "a varied sexual experience is necessary to the rhythm of life," he once told Secretary Young. "It quietens, it deadens, and it diverts." For the rhythm section of his life, Gulbenkian required a new girl about once every three months. He seemed to prefer the Eliza Doolittle...
...analysts themselves were changing their gloomy tune and encouraging many a holdout bear to hurry into the market for fear of missing it altogether. In the subtle psychological change, the weight of opinion was against any sharp break back to the recession lows. Instead, Wall Street's shrewd professionals speculated that the market would hang fairly close to the 450-460 level before edging higher...