Met celebrates 75th anniversary at old Broadway house
The Metropolitan Opera marked its 75th anniversary with Tosca opening the 1958-59 season at its Broadway home. Stars Tebaldi Del Monaco and London led a gala crowd of diplomats, celebrities, and patrons in traditional evening wear as the company eyes a Lincoln Center move for 1961. The performance pleased audiences with Puccini’s classic melodrama and a timeless feel.
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Martinelli
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London
Opera
Broadway
Paris
Anthony Bliss
Lorraine Manville
August Belmont
Robert Merrill
Pasternak Ousted by Writers' Union in Moscow
The Writers' Union in Moscow announced the expulsion of 68 year old author Boris Pasternak, critic of communism, after a meeting of its governing presidium. The move follows Nobel laureate Pasternak winning Stockholm’s prize, with Pravda urging rejection and a possible trip denial.
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Union
Doctor Zhivago
Literary Gazette Today
Pasternak
Moscow
Literary Gazette
West
Soviet Union
Swedish Academy of Letters
Stockholm
Eight New Polio Cases Reported in Detroit Area
DETROIT RP reports eight new polio cases and one additional death, raising this year’s totals to 810 cases and 22 deaths in the Detroit area epidemic.
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Detroit
Missing Money at Kansas City Bar Sparks Theft String
Vincent Como, 41, placed $550 in a towel in his downtown bar back room and was robbed after a customer left. A laundry truck driver had picked up the soiled towels, taking about $528 with the cash. Patrolman Theodore Porter investigated.
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Kansas City
Vincent Como
Como
Aviation Mystery Is Solved in Australia
Australian officials declare the 1931 Southern Cloud disappearance solved after wreckage found by a construction worker is identified by engine numbers. Bone fragments and a metal tag linked to an American passenger confirm the plane’s fate. The three engine Fokker belonged to Australian National Airways and was buried in the Snowy Mountains near World's End.
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Australia
Fokker
Melbourne
Hood Care Capitol Theater
Australian National Airways
Dulles Blasts Red China Shelling of Quemoy
Secretary of State Dulles labeled Red China’s shelling of Quemoy as promiscuous killing of civilians. He said Russia’s rejection of a one year atomic test moratorium might stem from Moscow lagging the United States in weapons tech. He warned Moscow’s stance dims chances for Geneva test ban talks but said the U.S. will proceed with the moratorium if the Russians do not explode devices after Friday.
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Dulles
Red China
Quemoy
Russia
Moscow
United States
Geneva
Cause Of Mine Blast Sought At Pocahontas Fuel Co
Investigators descend 300 feet into a gas-filled tunnel at the Pocahontas Fuel Co coal mine in Bishop Virginia to probe the cause of a blast that killed 22 miners and followed a February 1957 disaster in the same section. A public hearing begins Wednesday as rescue teams search the shaft area.
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Pocahontas Fuel Co
Crestae Wilson
West Virginia Bureau of Mines
Virginia
Wilson
Eisenhower Pushes GOP in New York Campaign
President Eisenhower intensified his campaign against the Democrats moving from Pennsylvania to New York to back Governor candidate Nelson Rockefeller and U.S. Senate hopeful Kenneth Keating. He touted gains under Republican policies and argued for a GOP Congress to ensure stable government amid vigorous Times Square welcome.
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Times Square
Astor Hotel
Youth May Learn If Vision Lost
Fourteen-year-old Sherrill D. Hurst may learn today if his vision is saved after bandages prevented Monday’s examination. He lives in the Hubert community near Swansboro and was blinded last week when a tracer bullet liquid blinded his eyes. He was treated at James Walker Memorial Hospital after an operation Saturday. Ordnance men from Cherry Point Marine Air Station seek to identify the chemical in the tracer found behind an abandoned house.
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Wilmington
N.C
Sherrill D. Hurst
Ster
Sherrill
Hubert
Swansboro
James Walker Memorial Hospital
Cherry Point Marine Air Station
Three Soviet Scientists Win 1958 Nobel Prize In Physics
In Stockholm the Nobel Prize in Physics goes to P A Cherenkov I M Frank and Igor E Tamm for the Cherenkov effect and a cosmic ray counter now circling Earth aboard Sputnik I. The trio, Moscow professors, are lauded for a better atomic mousetrap and face a Soviet political backdrop with Pasternak’s literature prize fallout.
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Igor Tamm
I. M. Frank
Stockholm
Sweden
P. A. Cherenikov
Igor E.tamm
Moscow
Royal Swedish Academy
Frederick Sanger
Alfred Nobel
Boris Pasternak
Pasternak
Soviet Union
Nobel
Soviet Writers Union
Cherenkov
Frank
Tamm
Kremlin
Family Stricken By Virginia Mine Disaster
In Bishop Virginia AP report a widow Ada Turner 72 speaks amid a crowd as her son Holiday 46 and 21 other miners are feared dead after a mine explosion. The family has already endured previous deaths from silicosis and a long life tied to the coal fields.
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Ada Turner
Ethel Sutherland
Holiday
Tavern Keeper Fends Off Robber with Glass and Chair
At the Weequahic Tavern in Newark New Jersey Mrs. Janet Pfeiffer fought back when a gunman pistol whipped her husband Paul Pfeiffer and looted the cash drawer. The gun jammed twice and the getaway car was later identified. driver Edmund Carter is charged with armed robbery.
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N.J
Janet Pfeiffer
Paul
Pfeiffer
Edmund Carter
Liniden
Carter
Forced lewd reply testifies at Army court martial
Sgt J C Moman of Empire Alabama faces seven specifications in a general court martial at an infantry training center. Witness Hathorne testified recruits were ordered to shout a lewd phrase during orientation and that the phrase was used to boost esprit in the company. Hathorne said he later learned a woman may have been nearby and expressed regret. Moman pleaded innocent to all charges.
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S.C
Tiesburg
Genera
J.C
Charles L. Moman
Empire
Ala
Hathorne
George M. Lovie
Ogdensburg
N.Y
Moman
Ft. Gordon
Augusta
Ben
Quemoys Shelled Sporadically Amid High Seas Skirmish
In Formosa, Red China shelled the Quemoys on an even-numbered day despite a pledge to exempt unloading zones. No sea convoys were seen. weather kept tests of Peng Teh-hsueh’s call to resupply without artillery. By noon, 103 shells hit the islands.
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Formosa
Red
China
Quemoys
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Quemoy
Formosa Strait
Peng Tehhaal
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