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Billy Rose's plan to "improve" the Metropolitan Opera [TIME, Sept. 6] is commendable, but he mustn't let his long affiliation with thousands of thin-thighed showgirls go to his vocabulary when he calls opera singers "hamfats." Does he know that it takes all that "heft" to sing above a vast orchestra? . . . Opera is not supposed to be a flashy, visual affair of housebroken horses and incredible bosoms ... We don't go to look; we go to listen...
...Both the Dixiecrats and the Progressives, certain that they would poll sizable votes, were aroused; they were far from amiable, and the issues they raised might be serious enough to cause some permanent political realignments. But between now and election day, those minor voices would recede into a distant, thin scream which would be pretty well drowned out. The major candidates would occupy the center of the stage...
...chiefly responsible for the company's notable record is Alexander R. Heron, Crown Zellerbach's thin, scholarly vice president and industrial relations chief, consulting professor of industrial relations at Stanford University. In a recent book, Why Men Work (Stanford University Press; $2.75), the latest choice of the Executive Book Club, Heron explained the program's philosophy. Said Heron: U.S. workers no longer work primarily for food and shelter. "The most potent reason why we work at physical jobs ... is a spiritual force ... the urge in man to realize and express himself as a person." Management, said Heron...
...Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for a strong and gorgeous narrative poem on the conquest of Mexico (Conquistador), began, in the middle '30s, to write poetic manifestoes of state in which the oratorical interest outgrew the poetic. Moreover, both kinds of interest deteriorated, reaching a nadir in a thin book of thin versified prattle called America Was Promises, in 1939. In that year MacLeish had accepted the first of a series of public offices: that of Librarian of Congress. He also became successively head of the Office of Facts and Figures, assistant director of OWL Assistant Secretary of State...
Rocket-borne cameras photographed the great round earth far below. Others took spectrograms of the sun's ultraviolet radiation. Samples of the thin, peculiar air near the top of the atmosphere were captured for analysis. Cosmic rays were counted and measured while still fresh from space. Some rockets shot out puffs of smoke, so that observers could measure high-altitude winds by the drift...