Word: antonio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...judges: Rudolf Serkin, George Szell, Leonard Bernstein, Abram Chasins, Nadia Rei-senberg, Alexander Schneider, Lillian Fuchs, Leopold Mannes, Arthur Judson, Eugene Istomin. -Born Lucy Hickenlooper in San Antonio, she changed her name to cater to the U.S. predilection for foreign musical artists. From 1911, until her divorce in 1923, she also answered to the name of Mrs. Leopold Stokowski...
...initials of his beagle pet (Little Beagle Johnson). Lyndon Johnson would rather be caught dead than in a suit costing less than $200. Indeed, when he suffered his far-from-mild 1955 heart attack, the question arose about whether to cancel orders he had put in with his San Antonio tailor for a blue suit and a brown one. Muttered Lyndon, who knew that doctors gave him only a fifty-fifty chance to live: "Let him go ahead with the blue one; we can use that no matter what happens...
Although radio interview's with holdup victims are old hat. Victim Harry Ingersoll, 44, a San Antonio loan company owner, reluctantly set a precedent last week in the annals of crime broadcasting. He was interviewed by San Antonio's KITE while the robber still held a gun on him. KITE's Newsman Harry Van Slycke picked up a police alarm of a holdup at Ingersoll's office, rang up Ingersoll and turned on a tape recorder. At the scene of the crime, the young gunman ordered Ingersoll to answer the call and act natural...
Typical of Peironi's girl singers is pretty, promising Soprano Dawn Nielson, 23, who sings three nights a week-all her music teacher will allow. This winter she got as far as the finals of the local Metropolitan Auditions. Pet of the Bocce is onetime La Scala Basso Antonio Meloni, who rooms across the street from the bar, has played pinochle there nearly every day since it opened in 1939. Basso Meloni, 81. arrives each morning at 10, stays all day, takes a short nap after dinner, brushes his shoulder-length white hair and returns for the evening...
KENNETH R. PYATT San Antonio...