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WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -- A drive to dislodge "enormous quantities" of "dormant" scrap scattered through industrial plants, retail stores and city, county, State and Federal storage yards over the country will be started tomorrow by the Office of Production Management's Bureau of Conservation, a unit headed by Lessing J. Rosenwald.
OPM freezes stocks to prevent hoarding or speculation
G N Nelson discusses Fed Appeals Ct ruling in surtax case
MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 13 -- At the moment when every one had top money in the Miami $10,000 open golf tournament wrapped for delivery into the hands of Ben Hogan, the year's leading links pro money-winner with more than $16,000 in prizes, a new claimant parachuted out of a blue Florida sky.
1941Karan Armstrong, American soprano and actress (died 2021)[â ]
Karan Armstrong was an American operatic soprano, who was celebrated as a singing actress. After winning the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 1966, she was given small roles at the Metropolitan Opera, and appeared in leading roles at the New York City Opera from 1969, including ConceptiĂłn in Ravel's L'heure espagnol, Blonde in Mozart's Die EntfĂŒhrung aus dem Serail, and the title roles in Verdi's La traviata, Offenbach's La belle HĂ©lĂšne and Puccini's La fanciulla del West. After she performed in Europe from 1974, first as MicaĂ«la in Bizet's Carmen, and then as a sensational Salome at the OpĂ©ra du Rhin, she enjoyed a career at major opera houses, appearing in several opera recordings and films. Armstrong was for decades a leading soprano at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where her husband Götz Friedrich was director. She appeared in world premieres, including Gottfried von Einem's Jesu Hochzeit, Luciano Berio's Un re in ascolto and York Höller's Der Meister und Margarita. She was awarded the title KammersĂ€ngerin twice.
1941Ellen Willis, American journalist, critic, and academic (died 2006)[â ]
Ellen Jane Willis was an American left-wing political essayist, journalist, activist, feminist, and pop music critic. A 2014 collection of her essays, The Essential Ellen Willis, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.