Word: annas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Although Anna Maria was news to most Americans, her singing had been pleasing listeners in Italy and elsewhere on the Continent for a good while. In 1943 her father, now a cellist with Bologna's Teatro Comunale, then director of a music conservatory on the beleaguered island of Rhodes, wanted very much to get his family back to Italy; six-year-old Anna cinched the airplane priority by piping Caro Nome for the island's military governor. At war's end she got showers of caramels from American G.I.s by warbling Gounod's Ave Maria...
Eighteen months ago, she graduated from the caramel stage with a concert debut in her home town of Pesaro, began touring Italy, Scandinavia and Spain. This winter, Ettore Verna, a friend of her father's conservatory days, now teaching singing in Manhattan, arranged for Anna's first trip...
Bananas & Beefsteak. As the cheers died away in Manhattan at the week's end, Anna's parents, who have been her only teachers, said they were determined to protect her youthful voice, carefully ration her performances despite the movie, recording and personal-appearance offers that 'were sure to roll...
None of the brouhaha seemed to have much effect on Anna Maria. A typical teenager, she was taking in the Manhattan sights in a bobby-sox outfit, filling up on her favorite food (bananas and beefsteak) and looking for a possible tennis partner...
Bloody Pathway. Kasper Jansen, a kindlier, more contemplative man than his fiery younger brother Koos, laughed a "bitterly defiant laugh" as he left the valley farm he loved. His pregnant wife Anna was more apprehensive. Anna detested violence. Like some of the other Boers with whom the Jansens joined forces in the drive into the north country, she wanted her children to grow up in a peaceful world stripped of racial hatred. But when the Boers reached the Matabele kingdom the natives resisted, and the Boers carved a bloody pathway with their rifles. Anna, giving birth just before the battle...