Met Opera Celebrates 70th Anniversary With Rebuilt House
New York Met Opera marks its 70th anniversary with a rebuilt auditorium, expanded seating and higher box returns as Faust returns in a modernized production. Jussi Björling stars as Faust with Victoria de los Ángeles as Marguerite, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni as Mephistopheles, praised by W G Rogers for a rewarding performance and Monteux conduct.
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New York
Metropolitan Opera
Faust
Met
Metropolitan
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Opera
Mephistopheles
Nicola Rossi-Lemeni
Constantinople
Italy
Jussi Bjoerling
Victoria de
Steel and Union Leaders Launch Grass Roots Plant Tour
U. S. Steel chairman Benjamin Fairless and United Steelworkers president David McDonald lead a joint tour of six Ohio steel plants. The leaders aim to resolve local disputes and test a new plant level approach to industrial relations with plans for similar tours in other regions.
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Cleveland
U. S. Steel
CIO United Steelworkers
Ohio
Benjamin F. Fairless
David J. McDonald
Steelworkers Union
Fairless
Company-Union
McDonald
Chicago
McClellan Sees Possible 1954 Democratic Congress
Senator McClellan of Arkansas forecasts a Democratic majority in 1954 if Republican farm policy stalls, citing farmer dissatisfaction and low livestock prices. He stated agricultural policy will be a key issue in next year’s elections and noted no implication that President Eisenhower is unpopular. He argued the Republican Congress has failed to address pressing farm problems.
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Arkansan
McClellan
Arkansas
Congress
Eisenhower
Republican Congress
Christmas Tree Harvest Gets Underway
Olympia Washington The Christmas tree harvest begins and will run to December 25. Millions of trees will be cut baled packed and shipped to all states Hawaii Alaska and many foreign countries. About two million trees were exported last year and another half million sold within the state. Major operators harvest their own or leased land while small operators buy from state land or farmers. Assistant Forestry Supervisor Donald Hopkins notes trees grow best on poor land and ten to twenty years after seed falls new evergreens reach Christmas tree size suitable for cutting. Lower limbs are pruned and trees thinned to ensure proper shape and avoid crowding that creates lop sided trees.
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Olympia
Wash
Hawaii
Alaska
Asst
Donald R. Hopkins
Old Belt Leaf Prices Rise Slightly in Market Report
The Federal State Market News Service noted slight increases in Old Belt flue cured tobacco prices yesterday with heavy volume but lower quality. Middle Belt sales were steady and no Eastern Belt report available as markets closed last week due to redrying plant congestion.
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Federal State Market News Service
Picket Line Demonstration Recorded at Arbitration Hearing
A wire recording of a picket line demonstration was played at an arbitration hearing for 20 dismissed Indiana Bell Telephone Co employees. The three arbitrators said they never heard such evidence before in labor cases. Bell said the recording was made outside its Indianapolis headquarters on August 27 amid objections from the CIO Communications Workers.
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Indianapolis
Indiana Bell Telephone Co
Bell
CIO Communications
Congress Expands GOP Policy Talks to Include Committee Chairs
Senator Knowland and Representative Halleck announced that chairmen of regular Senate and House committees will join White House sessions December 17 to 19 to discuss subjects in which their groups are interested. The move broadens GOP participation beyond top policy makers to speed preliminary work on the State of the Union agenda.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Sen
Knowland
Calif
Rep
Halleck
R-Ind
White House
Senate
House
Elise
Republican Policy Committee
Capehart
Senate Banking Committee
Sixty Santa Suits Stolen in Sunset Beach Heist
Sunset Beach California sixty Santa suits valued at twelve hundred dollars were stolen yesterday from Fred J Gerletti’s clothing factory.
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Sunset Beach
Calif
Fred J. Gerletti
Screen Actress Across Down Puzzle Clue List
A compact listing of crossword style clues across and down with numbers and partial prompts for many entries including actors, animals, metals, rail terms, and directions. The puzzle blends familiar names like Francis and Gael with misc hints for letters and wordplay.
Thirteen Former Klansmen Face Trial Next Month
Thirteen alleged former Ku Klux Klan members face trial in Wilmington on charges of kidnapping and flogging a brother and sister. FBI arrests followed a predawn raid marking a crackdown tied to the Carolinas Klan activity. The case involves 13 indicted defendants with bonds set at 2500 each and a December 7 arraignment to be scheduled by District Attorney Charles Green.
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Wilmington
N. C
FBI
Ernest Barfield Rogers
Christine TS
Dillonounty
S. C
North Carolina
Marsden Haywood Barfield
Mullins
Lton Harrington
Dist. Atty
Charles P. Green
J. Edgar Hoover
South Carolina
D.C
Dillon
S.C
Stassen Says Aid Can Be Reduced
Mutual Security Administrator Harold E. Stassen said American aid to Europe could be reduced soon as Europe enjoys its best economic year since the war. He told a television audience that aid could end for several countries including Spain Greece and others in 1940s postwar context.
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Philadelphia
Europe
Harold E. Stassen
Spain
Greece
Rhey
Bride and Groom Start New Life at 81 in Solon
William Hawley and the former Mrs Letta Avery, childhood sweethearts, married Sunday in Solon. The bride, a widow for six years, and Hawley, whose first wife died a year ago, are both 81.
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Cleveland
Solon
William Hawley
Letta Avery
Hawley
Arctic tern Named Long Distance Migrant Champion
The Arctic tern is noted as the long distance champion of migratory birds. It nests far north in Arctic lands and winters near the Antarctic, shaping a vast annual migration loop.
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Arctic
Antarctic
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