Word: bassos
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Included in the complete cast are: Walter Aikman '51; James R. Blake '48; Francis S. MacNutt '46; Richard Murphy '51; Wilfred M. Pickles '48; John A. Swanson 2G; William Whitehead '50; Kay Matthews, Radcliffe '51; Francena Thomas '49; Patricia Troxell '49; Natalie Basso, Radcliffe '49, and Mary Francis McGrath '50 as members of the chorus...
...could remember when organized labor led an almost furtive existence, it was a thrilling sight. In October 1947, the A.F.L. had 7,600,000 members-45,000 of them gained in the last twelve months. It was rich and powerful and often spoke to the public in the rich basso of full-page newspaper advertisements...
...second act of La Bohême, the cafe scene, where a cart filled with toys is dragged onstage, followed by laughing children. One of the kids was obviously more taken than the others by the singing of famed Metropolitan Basso Ezio Pinza, who was playing Colline. The admiration came naturally: it was his six-year-old daughter, Claudia...
...eleven years, Claudia never saw her father, and rarely heard from him. He became the Met's top basso, and a great box-office attraction. A handsome six-footer, his pressagents referred to him as "a Roman god come to life, one of the 14 most glamorous men in the world...
...Hora and Ultima Hora, he has been set upon 14 times by irate readers who objected to his acid words. The only man ever wounded by his Smith & Wesson was Goldschmidt; he shot himself in the hand while cleaning it. Usually it has been a beefy baritone or basso who socked him, although a tenor once tried to strangle him. Last week a woman beat him to the punch...