Word: adelina
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...same condominium complex as Samantha, Veglahn's foster brother Lewis Davis told TIME. A jury acquitted Avila on all those counts in 2001, however, and Avila's mother says the case was an attempt by the ex-girlfriend to seek revenge for the failed relationship. Says Avila's mother Adelina: "He bears a certain resemblance" to the sketch of Samantha's abductor, "but not exactly...
...posed a direct threat to Playmen (circ. 400,000), a home-grown imitation that has surpassed its American model in spice, if not in style, and has won a profitable niche for itself (TIME, Jan. 18, 1971). While Rome took in Hefner's prepublication ballyhoo, Playmen Editor Adelina Tattilo, 40, a stunning mother of three, behaved like a card shark with the winning...
...Hugh Hefner of Italy is a blonde. Adelina Tattilo, fortyish and the mother of three children, is the founder and publisher of Playmen, a glossy monthly album of nudes and what would probably turn out to be articles if anyone bothered to read them. Despite-or because of-a running battle with police, the magazine has reached a circulation of 450,000 in less than four years. That is phenomenal, especially since Playmen costs just over a dollar a copy. LIFE-like Epoca (circ. 350,000) and Oggi (950,000) cost 29? and 24? respectively...
...opera at all? Because when Lucia is sung brilliantly, it is an unparalleled showpiece for great singing. New York has heard nearly every soprano of importance attempt Lucia -from Adelina Patti to Maria Callas and Joan Sutherland. Most of them have played the role as a fluttering, chirping simpleton. Callas made Lucia into a figure of high tragedy, but sang with disillusioning unevenness; Sutherland sang it sumptuously, but her acting was merely studious when it should have been spellbinding...
When Chicago's Auditorium Theater opened in 1889, Pullmans, Palmers and Fields descended on the great granite edifice on Michigan Avenue in a stream of horse-drawn carriages. Inside, men stood and cheered as Adelina Patti sang Home Sweet Home, followed up with the Swiss Echo Song as an encore. President Benjamin Harrison, seated in a special box at the side of the stage, leaned toward Vice President Levi Morton and murmured, "New York surrenders, eh?" So it seemed that night in the magnificent hall, proudly proclaimed on the program to be "the Parnassus of modern civilization...