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...haired Helen Traubel is the greatest U.S. Wagnerian soprano of her generation. She has come a long way since she was just a St. Louis druggist's daughter with a fine voice. Now, with her heroic proportions (200 lbs.) exhibited to best advantage in sleek costumes by Hollywood's Adrian, her Isolde and Brünnhilde give her every right to queen it over the Metropolitan Opera's distaff contingent...
French newspapers have been cut to one tabloid-sized page a day. Britain's great dailies now report the news in four to ten pages. U.S. newspapers, paper-pinched but far less so, have kept a fairly sleek look by holding down new subscriptions, boiling some of the fat out of their features, saying a reluctant no to many advertisers. Last week, facing a 5% cut in newsprint inventories for the next quarter, some U.S. newspapers were driven to sterner measures...
...weekly, of June 13, 1835: "We might be disposed to wish that such superior talents and skill as are here displayed had been exercised on a subject of a higher grade in the social scale. . . ." Another characteristic Mount is Bargaining for a Horse, showing two farmers, standing near a sleek saddle horse tethered to a barnyard fence, and busily engaged in whittling their way through a deal. A third favorite in the show: Farmers Nooning, a sunny, almost odorous scene of farmhands sprawled at rest in a hayfield; the central figure is a huge, blissful Negro, sound asleep, with...
Russia's sleek, smiling Ambassador to Mexico climbed into the Mexican Army plane. Behind him came his wife and three members of his staff. In his pocket he carried his new credentials to the Government of Costa Rica, one of several Latin American Republics from which he had won recognition of the Soviet Union. Heavily, in the grey dawn, the plane lifted itself off the ground to 400 feet, then dived back to earth. There was a flash of blue and red flames. Then, in the blazing plane, death came to 42-year-old Ambassador Oumansky, his wife...
...Satan problem with humor. He warned Red Army men who had seldom seen luxury goods in Russian shopwindows, that "a lot of outward tinsel will dazzle your eyes." He warned them "not to believe in the deceitful phantoms of a false civilization." Some of Sobolev's "deceitful phantoms": sleek automobiles, bright advertisements, well-to-do homes with shutters mysteriously drawn to hide "cheap luxuries," fat businessmen with gold watch chains looped across their well-fed midriffs...