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...when he returned; the lady who traveled with him was not his wife). After the symphony's officials stopped blushing, they decided not to hire anyone for a while but to study a relay of guest conductors. By far the most popular of the visitors proved to be Brooklyn-born Milton Katims. The guest was asked twice, and last fall the board signed...
Married. Vic Damone (real name: Vito Farinola), 25, Brooklyn-born crooner; and Pier Angeli (real name: Anna Marie Pier-angeli), 22, elfin-faced, Italian-born cinemactress; in St. Timothy's Roman Catholic Church, in Hollywood...
Married. Robert Merrill (real name: Robert Miller), 34, Brooklyn-born Metropolitan Opera baritone; and Marion Machno, 27, Manhattan piano teacher; he for the second time (a previous go-day marriage to Met Soprano Roberta Peters ended in divorce in 1952), she for the first; in Manhattan...
...that Postum Co. (predecessor of General Foods) had just bought Sanka and, "with only a phone call," had canceled his profitable Sanka account, handed it over to a rival agency. Later the company saw the mistake and in 1928 hired him as Sanka's advertising manager. Brooklyn-born Mortimer has a hobby that fits right in with the food business. He runs a 400-acre dairy farm in Sussex County...
Sere-Faced Farmers. Brooklyn-born Aaron Copland has no rural roots of his own (although his mother was raised in Peoria), but always knew he wanted to write an "American" opera. A dozen years ago, he read Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a prose poem about the hardscrabble South by James Agee, with photographs by Walker Evans. Copland found it inspiring, afterward showed it to his librettist, Poet Horace Everett,* who was struck by the photographs of serefaced farmers and their families. Everett transferred the setting from the South to Kansas and finished the libretto two years...