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...starvation salaries. The few able conductors and singers who stuck with it did so only out of loyalty to the company or because their political consciences forbade them to sing for the Communists. Still, the Municipal Opera made out, and when the rival companies mounted simultaneous productions of, say, Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, it was a tossup which was superior (although neither achieved the standard of the old Berlin State Opera, New York's Metropolitan or Milan's La Scala...
...Strauss: Wiener Blut (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Erich Kunz, Emmy Loose, Nicolai Gedda; Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus under Otto Ackermann; Angel, 3 sides of 2 LPs). Not so grand a ball as Die Fledermaus, Johann Strauss's masterpiece, this operetta is slighter but in spots even more delightful. A composite of Strauss music not originally written for the stage, the score is full of surprises: when sung, some of the waltzes and polkas take on a warbling charm they do not have as orchestra pieces alone. The libretto is preposterous, but offers linguists an unusually rich sampling of Viennese slang...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews Actress Helen Hayes, AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss...
...Mississippi Engineering Dean Frederic H. Kellogg, a onetime Panama Canal geologist. Testified Kellogg: "A safe plant could be built at [West Memphis] but . . . foundation soil and river conditions . . . would make the overall substructure costs significantly higher than at other nearby locations." At a press conference, AEChair-man Lewis Strauss defended the site, saying that the Army Corps of Engineers had approved the West Memphis site as "a safe place" after surveying 16 proposed locations. But, as it turned out, the Army Engineers had nothing to do with the plant location. Said Major General Bernard L. Robinson, Acting Chief of Engineers...
...Strauss defended the proposed contract, along with Edgar H. Dixon and Eugene A. Yates, heads of two of the utilities that will be in the group formed to build the plant. But to newsmen later he regretted "that [the Dixon-Yates contract] is not being negotiated directly between the Tennessee Valley Authority and the power companies," rather than with the AEC acting for TVA. When asked why it had not been negotiated directly, Strauss said that he did not know...