Word: alfredo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alfredo Beneduce. President of the Consortium on Public Works Credit (Italy...
...Papal letter which made L'Osservatore a best seller was addressed to Alfredo Ildefonso Cardinal Schuster, Archbishop of Milan. His Holiness had put thunder & lightning into every sentence, thus...
...Leitzel, the small, muscular lady who used to do more than 200 one-handed giant turns on a rope high up under the Big Top. She fell and was killed when a trapeze ring broke with her in Copenhagen last February (TIME, Feb. 23). Last week her husband, Trapezist Alfredo Codona, "The Wizard of Flight," brought back her ashes in a golden urn. Airplanes dropped wreaths on his ship as it came up New York Harbor. There are still 800 other performers in the Circus, however-whip-crackers who knock the caps off bottles 50 ft. away; whooping cowboys; clowns...
...single spotlight and bass drums booming. Her most famed stunt was "the giant half flange": rolling herself upward on a suspended rope, swinging her body over her shoulder while hanging 50 ft. from the tanbark. Her record: 249 turns. Her first husband was one Clyde Ingalls, her second was Alfredo Cordona, Mexican trapeze artist, leader of the Cordox troupe...
...twice in the news last week. In Baltimore, as judge of a Pan-American exhibition of paintings opened with unction by Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson as "an outstanding event in the history of Pan-American cultural relations," he helped to award the $1,000 first prize to Alfredo Guttero of Argentina for a formalized, thick-necked Madonna somewhat reminiscent of the woodcuts of Britain's Eric Gill. The award moved Baltimore Catholics to indignant frenzy. Thundered the Catholic Review...