Word: amelia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author & composer was 30-year-old Gian-Carlo Menotti. a Philadelphia-trained Italian whose name has loomed large in opera circles since his effervescent Amelia Goes to the Ball clicked happily in 1937. Menotti turned out a second hit in 1939: a radio opera. The Old Maid and the Thief, commissioned by NBC. His newest venture, like its predecessors, is short. Unlike them, it is a tragedy. Menotti had complained: "The critics wrote that my talent was only for opera buffa...
...Roseville Methodist Church in Newark, N.J. Mrs. Amelia Carr was a constant ray of sunshine. Almost daily her liveried chauffeur took her to visit the sick in the parish. She was a generous contributor to charity. When her 71-year-old husband took ill, she prayed at his bedside, devotedly nursed him back to health...
...take any more than was right. After all it is their country." - The Millville, N.J. Board of Trade banqueted well-paunched Defense Commissioner Leon Henderson, elected him, as a native son, No. 1 Citizen for 1940 of Millville (pop.: 14,705). - Day after he had married 34-year-old Amelia Orr Ronin in Ensenada, Mexico, Thomas Fortune Ryan II, scion of the banking and mining empire, awoke and found that his third bride had vanished. He proceeded to Los Angeles, took a bridal suite, waited two days before the bride returned. Groaned veteran Playboy Tommy: "I don't know...
...Blitz. A bomb heavily damaged one of the London police courts last week, but as soon as chunks of debris had been shoveled out of the main courtroom, the magistrate resumed trial of usual petty police-court cases - drunkenness, pocket-picking, etc. A 74-year-old widow, Mrs. Amelia Graham, was hauled into Hendon Police Court on a drunken-driving charge. She proved that her physician was having her take a tablespoonful of whiskey every two hours to steady her nerves against the Blitz, notwithstanding was fined $80. One Alfred Jack Perry, 34, was arraigned at Stratford-on-Avon...
...Other recipients: Wiley Post, Amelia Earhart, Edwin C. Musick, Charles A. Lindbergh, Howard Hughes...