Word: caruso
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hulking Hollywood Tenor Mario Lanza was a big box-office hit 3½ years ago in The Great Caruso. But when his temperament interfered with his work on The Student Prince, M-G-M canceled his contract (TIME, Sept. 15, 1952). Lanza relaxed in his rented ($2,000 a month) Beverly Hills house, eating well while his already overstuffed bulk swelled...
Born. To Mario Lanza, 32, overstuffed Hollywood tenor (The Great Caruso), and Betty Hicks Lanza, 31: their fourth child, second son; in Hollywood. Weight...
Died. Dr. John Frederic Erdmann, 90, retired Manhattan surgeon, who performed more than 20,000 operations, including chest surgery on Tenor Enrico Caruso, a secret operation (to avoid public panic during the great 1893 free-silver debate) on President Grover Cleveland for cancer of the jawbone aboard a yacht in Long Island Sound; of a coronary occlusion; in Manhattan...
...Anthony Caruso Curator of Photography The Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn
...immense castle with towers and battlements, but castles were not to Misia's taste. "Why should I limit myself to two or three hundred acres, when I can revel in the whole world?" she demanded. Edwards promptly sold his castle and built Misia a 100-ft. yacht. Caruso acclaimed the yacht's acoustics perfect, and tirelessly sang Neapolitan songs whenever he was a guest. "Enough!" Misia finally cried. "I can't bear that any more!" Eyes popping, Caruso exploded in dismay: "I, Caruso, the great, the incomparable Caruso! I! Princes have knelt before me, begging...