Word: caruso
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...Bellowing back, the police union, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, put its money where its mouth was: it spent $16,240 for a full-page ad in the Daily News (circ. 1.5 million) lambasting Breslin as "the old Saloon Philosopher." Said the ad, signed by P.B.A. President Phil Caruso: "The most astounding thing about the Breslin column was that the Daily News printed it without first smelling Breslin's breath...
...Memphis." But most citizens took the incident in stride. Carey Wong, of Opera Memphis, was rhapsodic: "It was a lovely gesture, a captivating moment." David Reuben, spokesman for the Met tour, suggested that if the Met could survive the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, where it performed Carmen with Caruso, it would probably survive the topless tremors in Tennessee...
...dumplings known as the Campbell's Soup kids have been among the most familiar and successful symbols in advertising. When the kids first appeared in posters on New York City trolley cars, Cy Young was on the mound for the Boston Somersets (now the Red Sox) and Enrico Caruso was winding up his first American opera season. Cherubic and definitely chubby, the kids have always conveyed the message that children raised on "M'm! M'm! Good!" Campbell's soups will grow up healthy and happy...
...basic karaoke set costs $400 and includes a cassette player and prerecorded tapes, a microphone, echo control and songbook. The closet Caruso simply turns on the music, finds his place in the songbook, picks up his microphone and croons away. Popular accompaniments range from work songs of Japanese farmers and favorites of World War II fighters to I Left My Heart in San Francisco...
...Bliss, was the president of a textile firm. He owned a box in the grand tier, the so-called Diamond Horseshoe, of the old Metropolitan Opera House, and he was chairman of the board from 1938 to 1946. Anthony attended his first performance when he was six, hearing Enrico Caruso in I Pagliacci, and when his father died in 1949, he was automatically offered a seat on the governing board. "I was aware of the kind of problems that faced opera for as long as I could remember," he says, "and I suppose that I got my knowledge of opera...