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...wing, the imaginative American Opera Society, which specializes in concert versions of rare items, agreed to bring forth at Carnegie Hall a fine old showcase for her fiery talents (Bellini's Il Pirata), allowed Maria to bring along her own conductor, tenor, baritone. Success was assured. The stiff prices ($33 top) fazed few of her fans, who applauded the Callasthenics lustily, ahed her mad scene, stopped cheering only when a stagehand doused the lights...
That was after the U.S. State Department, backed by President Eisenhower, had delivered a stiff protest to Moscow against any interference with the Wesern Allies' access to Berlin...
...land on the proper side of the white line ("So far, I've never called one wrong"). Listening peacefully behind his dark glasses, Referee Medick is table tennis' most relaxed fan. "I don't get crosseyed following the ball," he says, "and I never get a stiff neck...
...State of Grace M. Duperrier, a good Christian in the prime of life, is crowned with a radiant halo "which looked as though it might have been cut out of fairly stiff cardboard." His wife is socially embarrassed, for "she thought it more important to be esteemed by her concierge than by her Creator." A dutiful husband, Duperrier cultivates the seven deadly sins in the hope of losing the halo. Matters reach a hilariously poignant pitch when Duperrier blushingly prepares for lust by reading the latest sex manuals aloud. At story's end, he is a prostitute...
...varsity five will run into stiff copposition at 8:30 p.m. tonight when it encounters powerful Cornell at the I.A.B. Tomorrow night's home opponent, however, is the considerably less potent Columbia team...