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January 7, 1961

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profiles

SPACE-AGE MAESTRO

Winthrop Sargeant

PROFILE of the famous Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan. Like Rudolf Bing, he is dead set against opera singers who are not physicallybeautiful, …

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Gather Ye Rosebuds, But Watch Ye Step

S. J. Perelman