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...wonders of the woman, for critics were forever carping about her curiously husky and often uneven voice. Her reaction was characteristic: "Nobody ever said I could sing, and I don't give a damn." Her contribution to opera, little realized by the critics who were bred on the stodgy, grandiose style of the full-blown sopranos popular at the turn of the century, was enormous. She was the first of the great singing actresses, a complete performer capable of re-creating opera heroines in her own poignant, personal image. She used her voice as a painter uses a brush...
...enterprise that accounts today for about 15% of the book volume. All told, mail-order houses and book clubs, such as TIME-LIFE Books and the Reader's Digest Book Club, deliver $181 million worth of volumes to the buyers' doors every year. The market has bred a host of specialty clubs for teenagers, preteens, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, teachers, civil engineers, gamblers, photographers, gardeners, and salesmen...
Stinging Ants. The enemy the U.S. will face is by and large Delta-born and bred and has been fighting in the paddies for a long time. There are an estimated 30,000 "hard hat" or main-force Viet Cong soldiers and some 50,000 local guerrillas and political agents. No North Vietnamese regulars operate in the Delta, but the Viet Cong main force units are equipped with modern Chinese weaponry that equals in firepower the South Vietnamese force that has opposed them up to now. Principal Red sanctuaries are the mangrove swamps along the coast, the Plain of Reeds...
...Craig Claiborne, 46, Mississippi-bred food editor of the New York Times, a discriminating one-man Guide Michelin to restaurants not just in Manhattan but throughout the nation, and editor of the 717-page The New York Times Cookbook (over 100,000 copies). "I love American cooking," says Claiborne, and he is writing a book on regional U.S. cooking to prove it. The recipes in the Times, some taken from hostesses whom Claiborne writes about, are so good that many women leave their cookbooks behind when they go on vacation, rely on the Times's menus almost entirely...
...with flying, served as a naval aviator in both World Wars. In 1929 he took a plunge into diplomacy by becoming Ambassador to Cuba, spent much of his time prevailing on Dictator Machado y Morales not to murder too many of his political opponents. He has married three times, bred race horses on his 11,000-acre estate, Cain Hoy, in South Carolina, and supervised various family interests, including Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum...