Word: arturo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Died. Arturo Alessandri Palma, 81, president of the Chilean Senate, twice (1920-25; 1932-38) President of Chile; in Santiago. A leader of Chile's Liberal Party, a skilled old hand at political give & take, Alessandri (called El Leon-the lion) pulled the strings in many a political deal, helped put President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla in office...
...every audience-measuring system known to radio, Jack Benny has long attracted many millions more listeners than Arturo Toscanini and his NBC Symphony. But box-office receipts in Cleveland's Public Auditorium tell a different story. Toscanini, stopping off on his U.S. tour, grossed $29,000 and played to an audience of 9,500. A week later in the same auditorium, Jack Benny's traveling show grossed a mere $11,000 from an audience...
...Toryho to an address in the city where Captain Massolo lived with his brother. The reporter and a few "friends kept the place under watch, trailed Massolo day after day. The captain finally figured out that he was being watched; one day he went to Federal Police Chief General Arturo Bertollo, broke down, and made a full confession...
...witnesses huddled for 45 minutes in a judge's office over a heap of official papers. In Rome, where night was falling, Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini sat side by side in church, their minds on the doings in Mexico. At Juarez, at last, Attorneys Javier Alvarez and Arturo Gomez-Trevino rose from the huddle, stood before Judge Raul Orozco. "Do you," the judge asked Alvarez, "as the representative of Roberto Rossellini, know if it is his will to take Ingrid Bergman as his lawful wedded wife?" The same kind of question was put to Gomez-Trevino, acting...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 (the NBC Symphony, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 2 sides LP). Toscanini's music seems to grow leaner with the years. In this new performance, he has scalpeled away pounds of the bombast with which the "Eroica" is too often fattened out; what remains is clear, bone-clean, but still well-muscled. Recording: excellent...